Brooklyn Nets soar into All-Star Break with another win, beat 76ers 100-96

The Brooklyn Nets don’t believe in taking off the day before a big trip, Summer Fridays, or any sort of “just get to the end of the week” attitude Millennials have made standard over the past decade (I’m in my mid 20s, so I’m allowed to say that). Heck, they’ve never even liked an Almost Friday post on Instagram.

“I think our guys are ready to play the game,” Jordi Fernández said pregame, once being reminded that the All-Star break sits a day away. “We’re not on break. We’re not on vacation. We have to earn the break.”

Earn it, they did.

At the front of Brooklyn’s assembly line tonight was D’Angelo Russell, who put in 14 of Brooklyn’s first 18 points and didn’t miss until taking a heat check…