PORTLAND, Ore. — The Trail Blazers lost their star, but the Nets lost the game.
The Nets blew a double-digit lead in the waning minutes of regulation, then fell 148-144 in double overtime before a sellout crowd of 20,188 at the Moda Center on Monday.
Jusuf Nurkic (32 points, 16 rebounds) was stretchered off the floor after a gruesome ankle injury with 2:22 left in the second overtime. But the Blazers ran off the first seven points of the period and the Nets didn’t have another comeback in them.