Rivalry? What rivalry?
The Knicks-Nets game at Barclays Center wasn’t a battle for local bragging rights. No, not this year. The Nets have their eyes on something much bigger than that.
The Nets, who entered Monday night having won 12 of 13 games, don’t care that this has forever been a Knicks town. They don’t care that they might be a bigger national story than local story. They just care that they have a legitimate shot of winning it all this year.
"We can’t get caught up in the New York rivalry thing," sniffed Nets center DeAndre Jordan, who incidentally used to be Knick.