NEW YORK — Cam Johnson scored a season high 29 points, hitting a season-high seven 3-pointers in 11 attempts, to help the Brooklyn Nets beat the Atlanta Hawks 124-97 on Thursday night to open a two-game series.
Fighting for the last play-in spot in the Eastern Conference, the teams will meet again at Barclays Center on Saturday.
"(They're) right in front of us," Dennis Schroder said about Atlanta, which leads the Nets by three games. "We understood before the game we kind of had (to have) a hit- first mentality and we did a great job of it.