DENVER -- Paul Pierce scored 18 points and the Brooklyn Nets rebounded from their worst loss more than 10 years by routing the slumping Denver Nuggets
112-89 on Thursday night.
Cheap NFL Jerseys Wholesale . Joe Johnson, Marcus Thornton, and Mason Plumlee each added 10 points for the Nets, who
snapped a six-game losing streak in Denver. The Nets hadnt won in the Mile High
City since a 112-102 victory on Jan. 27, 2007. Randy Foye had 15 points to lead
Denver, which has lost four in a row and nine of 10. Brooklyns 7-foot centre
Jason Collins, the NBAs first openly gay player appearing in his third game
since being signed to a 10-day contract, was given a round of applause from the
crowd when he entered the game for the first time with 8:02 left. Collins
finished with three points. Before the game, Collins said he planned to meet
afterward with the family of Wyoming college student Matthew Shephard, who was
tortured and murdered in 1998 because he was gay. Collins wears his No. 98
jersey in Shepards honour, and he said during a pregame news conference that the
chance to meet Dennis and Judy Shepard was "one of those cool treats in life."
The Nets were coming off a 104-80 loss at Portland the night before, their
biggest loss since a 47-point defeat to Memphis on Dec. 13, 2003. But they
quickly put that behind them with a runaway win of their own in a game in which
they never trailed. Pierce scored 11 points in the third quarter, helping the
Nets extend their lead to 38 points. Brooklyn took an 89-56 advantage into the
fourth quarter and played reserves for most of the rest of the game. The
offensive struggles by Denver, which was without leading scorer Ty Lawson (left
rib fracture) for an eighth consecutive game, were epitomized in the first
quarter. The Nuggets were held to a season-low eight points on 3-for-18 shooting
from the floor (16.7 per cent) and trailed by as many 31 points in the second
quarter before managing to get within 23 at the half. It got bad enough for the
Nuggets that the crowd, after seeing Timofey Mozgov and Kenneth Faried both miss
dunks in the first quarter, cheered derisively when Mozgov hit a layup early in
the second. The Nets took advantage of the Nuggets horrible start to pull out to
59-36 halftime lead. Each of 10 Nets players seeing action to that point scored
at least once. Denver ended up with as many turnovers in the first quarter as
points. NOTES: The Nuggets were also without F Wilson Chandler, who was held out
of the game because of sore right knee. ... The previous low for points in a
quarter by the Nuggets was 12, against Oklahoma City on Jan. 9. ... The Nets
Shaun Livingston made his 33rd start of the year, the most in a season in his
career. ... Brooklyn improved to 4-10 in the second of back to back games. ...
Since the beginning of January, the Nets have gone 17-8, fourth-best among
Eastern Conference teams in that stretch. ... Denver, historically one of the
teams with the strongest home-court advantage, fell to 14-15 at the Pepsi Center
this season. ... All 13 Nets playing in the game scored.
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