The Portland Trail Blazers could not carry on the common theme for their season thus far — late game heroics — as the Brooklyn Nets did just enough to pull out a win in Portland on Thursday night. Kevin Durant led the brigade with 35 points. Five of his teammates answered the call beside him, scoring in double figures.
In the wake of some press conference verbiage that raised antennas, namely the usage of the full names of his teammates when deflecting over their eye-opening loss to the Sacramento Kings on Tuesday night, as well as comments about his leadership, the entire Nets squad came out like they had something to prove, and earned the victory.