Kyrie Irving held the ball in his hands with a little under a minute left in the fourth quarter. As he maneuvered his way out of a double team set by P.J. Tucker and Danuel House, Irving knocked down a two-step fade away 3-pointer to extend the Brooklyn Nets’ lead to nine points.
Irving’s shot was the nail in the coffin as the Nets (2-3) sealed a 123-116 victory over the Houston Rockets (3-2), Friday night, inside the Barclays Center in Brooklyn.
Two nights after falling a couple points shy of his career-high, James Harden finished with 36 points and eight assists but looked far from the player who put on a show in D.