The Brooklyn Nets return home to the Barclays Center on Monday, looking to bounce back from just their second loss in the last eight games, when the New York Knicks make the short trip to Brooklyn.
The Nets, playing without James Harden on the first leg of a back-to-back Sunday, lost in Chicago, 115-107. The loss snapped a four-game winning streak and dropped Brooklyn out of first place in the Eastern Conference.
Kyrie Irving dished 15 assists against the Bulls and scored 24 points but went 0-of-4 shooting from 3-point range. Brooklyn knocked down 11-of-28 from beyond the arc as a team, but Chicago trumped the Nets’ 48.4-percent field-goal shooting with a 55.1-percent effort.
…
Keep on reading: Nets eye bounce back win at home vs Knicks