The Nets (21-22) erased a 19-point second-quarter deficit on Wednesday, coming from behind to beat the Atlanta Hawks 116-100 for their eighth win in their last nine games at Barclays Center.
The win enabled Brooklyn to jump past the idle Miami Heat (19-20) into sixth place in the Eastern Conference by a few percentage points. The Nets are now a half-game up on the eighth-place Charlotte Hornets (19-21), who were also idle on Wednesday.
With a 113-100 loss on the road to the Los Angeles Lakers, the ninth-place Detroit Pistons (17-22) now trail the Nets by two games.