Seriously undermanned Nets team faces World Champions.
The big news of Saturday is not game between Brooklyn and Boston but instead that Cam Thomas, dealing with the third iteration of a left hamstring strain, is done for the season. As the team explained, there’s not enough time in the season— 16 games— for him to appropriately rehab. Still the show must go on.
NETS vs. Celtics
Time: 6:00 p.m. ET
Opponent: Boston Celtics (48-19)
Tune In: YES Network; WFAN radio
Game Preview | Brian Fleurantin
Injuries: No Noah Clowney, Nic Claxton, De’Anthony Melton, Trendon Watford, or Cam Thomas. The Nets are playing five games in a seven-day stretch so Claxton and Watford are on injury management.
Jayson Tatum, Jaylen Brown and Kristaps Porzingis are available, and Derrick White and Al Horford are out.
The Game: Boston won the first two meetings in November. They wrap the season series up next week.
This is the first night of a back-to-back for the Nets. They’re back home at Barclays to play the Atlanta Hawks on Sunday night.
If it’s close in the fourth quarter, the Nets will try to reverse a season long trend. As Collin Helwig noted in his latest Takeaways story, the Nets are -75 in the fourth quarter, worst in the NBA.
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