The Brooklyn Nets battled the Atlanta Hawks on Thanksgiving Eve, a contest sandwiched in between four off-days. Monday and Tuesday were spent gearing up for a Hawks team that lost the craziest game of the NBA season to date, 157-152, to the Indiana Pacers on Tuesday night, quite a way to start a back-to-back. Thursday and Friday would, of course, be spent with family back in Brooklyn before a weekend double-header at the Barclays Center.
It’d be a reach to say the Nets needed a win, entering the game at 6-7 with a particularly tough stretch of their schedule behind them.