It was an appropriate ending for the season for Nets.
After a year that saw them withdraw victories when their fans rooted them to be discouraged, they are resolved when a victory would really help them in the draft.
And it was against his archirival no less, blowing an advantage and falling 113-105 against the Knicks before a multitude sold 17,926 at the Barclays Center that included the owner of the Joe Tsai team.
The Nets (26-56) ended with the sixth record of league sausages and the sixth most likely of the lottery.
Thanks to Mikal Bridges’s trade last summer, they also have the first round of the Knicks, which fell to 26 after Sunday’s result.
If the Nets had stayed against their rival, the choice would have a leg in a five -way draw for 22. In their integer they suffered a expensive defeat and did it mainly to the players who can be in different uniforms next season, or in the best case at the end of the bank.
“YO [told them] I was proud of them for the season, the work they put, the good intentions they had, “said Chief coach Jordi Fernández.” You know what we have built so far, and we have to move on and continue working. And he was very, very happy for the boys. Obviously, [we] I wanted to win that game, but I couldn’t make it come true. “
Bridges, to whom the Nets exchanged through the East River for a record of five first round selections and an exchange, began and angry ambivalent for the local crowd. But he was the first to return to chase his former team.
Landry Shamet led the heavy support Knicks with a maximum of 29 points in 7 of 13 from Deep against his former club. Cam Payne added 21.
Trendon Watford and Tyrese Martin shared high honors for Nets with 20 points and seven rebounds each.
Jalen Wilson, who led the team in minutes on Sunday with 37:58 and this season with 2,031, added 18 points.
Nic Waston started as usual, but he sat all the room. And there were a lot of young people fighting to impress before the reconstruction of seriously with the four rookies of the first round this summer.
“This summer, I was probably leaving my career in the NBA … then, I stayed with the routine, and the work began to be shown in the games, and I had a chance,” Martin said. “They say you just need a coach to believe in you, and I feel that Jordi was that guy for me; [he] He gave me a chance. “
The Nets led 10 before allowing an extended race of 23-5 Knicks in the third quarter. They never recovered.
Keon Johnson found Wilson for a 3 that put the Nets 74-64 with 8:38 remaining in the period. But that’s when they let the Knicks take over the impulse forever.
Thousands McBride began the race with a triple. And the two -way free shows Kevin McCullar Jr. limited it with 2:28 remaining in the third.
The Nets followed 87-79 and never leads again. They had still dropped 105-98 with five minutes to play after the McCullar tray. They tried to meet when Wilson found Drew Timme-who played the last quarter with Washton sitting, then, Watford, for a triple.
That pulled the networks inside a deduce with four minutes removing but not closer.
Noah Clowney, Cam Johnson, D’Angelo Russell, Day’ron Sharpe and Cam Thomas, Reece Beekman and Ziaire Williams were out.
The Knicks played without Karl-Anthony Towns, Jalen Brunson, Og Anunoby and Josh Hart.
The networks have fallen 10 in a row against the Knicks. That is the second longest race in rivalry, after the duration of Nets 11 in a row of the Jason Kidd era.
Sunday’s final marked the last winning game of Frank Digraci’s award as the YES Network coordinating producer for Net Games. He had been on paper for 26 years and received a T -shirt No. 26 of the Nets of the General Manager Sean Marks.
Digraci goes to NBC Sports to coordinate its NBA coverage.
Bridges extended his consecutive games played streak in a maximum of League 556 with the same mischief, Hey two years ago.
In that final of the season for the Nets, he played four seconds against 76ers and committed a foul in the tap, immediately came out. On Sunday against his former team, it lasts only six seconds.