Long Island Nets drop to .500 with top players in Brooklyn

Photo by Kevin Dorsey/NBAE via Getty ImagesWith one two-way, Jalen Wilson, and one first round draft pick, Noah Clowney, in Brooklyn and another rotation player, Patrick Gardner, practicing with the Egyptian national team in Cairo, the Long Island Nets were again undermanned Saturday and lost a close one to the Greensboro Swarm, the Charlotte Hornets G League affiliate.

Final score: Greensboro 102, Long Island 96.

It was Long Island’s second straight loss to Greensboro and dropped Long Island to 9-9 in the G League’s regular season standings.

Five Nets players finished in double figures, 6’5” combo guard Keon Johnson, the Nets other two-way, had 22 points once again coming off the bench;…