Brooklyn Nets

The Charlotte Hornets visit the Brooklyn Nets on Sunday for a game with major postseason implications. Both squads are playing well, as Brooklyn has won se.

Charlotte is the seventh-best team against the spread this season, and that trend continues in a game where they will have every reason to play their best basketball. The key for Charlotte will be to make it more difficult for Irving to get his points this time around, as his 50 point performance came on 79% shooting and 75% from three-point range. With the season tiebreaker on the line and only one game separating them in the standings, both the Hornets and Nets will have every incentive to play their best basketball on Sunday night.

The Brooklyn Nets achieved a blowout win over the Miami Heat, who entered the matchup first in the East. How does each player grade?

Lately, Patty Mills has struggled to provide consistent positive contributions for the Nets. In 20 minutes, he scored nine points but went 2-11 (18.2 percent) on his shot attempts with all of those being 3s. He went 3-5 (60.0 percent) on his shot attempts with all of them being 3s. It’s difficult to have much to say about a player who spent 15 minutes on the basketball court and their only recorded stats were two missed shots and two fouls. However, his lack of a perimeter shooting presence bogged down the half-court offense and his dirty work contributions did not do much to elevate the Nets when he was on the floor. However, on the shot attempts he did take, he finished 4-11 (36.3 percent) from the floor and 1-5 (20.0 percent) on 3s. Kevin Durant set the tone in the scoring department for the Nets with 23 points and he finished going 7-14 (50.0 percent) from the floor and 9-10 (90.0 percent) on free throws. However, he went 1-5 (20.0 percent) on free throws and had a high rate of fouls (four) for 18 minutes. Curry ended his night with 17 points and one steal with supreme efficiency scoring the basketball in the 22 minutes that he saw the floor. In his return from a one-game absence, Goran Dragic finished with six points, four rebounds, and four assists in 21 minutes. With a unit that features Kevin Durant, Kyrie Irving, and Seth Curry, the Nets need Brown to do a lot of the dirty work on both ends and to make the right play with the basketball when he touches it. He did a little bit of everything and continued to be the glue that holds the unit together. It was a relatively slow start from the Nets in this game as they trailed 21-15 with 5:42 left in the first quarter.

ESPN's Stephen A. Smith sees the Miami Heat as being vulnerable to losing to either the Brooklyn Nets or Toronto Raptors in the playoffs.

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List Wire Rookie Wire Warriors Wire Thunder Wire Sixers Wire Nets Wire Rockets Wire Lonzo Wire LeBron Wire Celtics Wire The Nets have won seven of their last nine games overall. The Hornets are 18-18 away from home this season but have won their last three road contests.

Brooklyn Nets superstar Kyrie Irving is set to make his home debut against the Charlotte Hornets on Sunday.

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