Isaiah Whitehead turned 23 Thursday and celebrated by scoring 26 points and hitting key baskets at the end as the Long Island Nets won their seventh game in the last ten, beating cross-county rival Westchester Knicks, 99-95, at the Westchester County Center.
The win, the second in three nights vs Westchester, keeps the Nets in the playoff picture. The team with the best regular-season record in each division automatically qualifies for the postseason as one of six “division winners.” The additional six playoff berths will be filled by the three “wild card” teams in each conference with the best regular-season records, other than the division winners.