The Utah Jazz hosted the Brooklyn Nets on Friday night for Royce O’Neale’s return to Utah. Royce got a nice welcome and immediately made his presence felt with three three-pointers in the first quarter. Meanwhile, Utah struggled with their shooting, have one of their worst first quarters of the season.
Despite missing Kevin Durant, Brooklyn turned to their star player for scoring. Kyrie Irving had it firing on all cylinders. He was hitting shots that were wilder than his conspiracy theories.
Utah pushed back with a big run led by Collin Sexton and Jarred Vanderbilt.