Nets take care of business in home opener
Lopez Returns as Brooklyn Bludgeons Wounded OKC, 116-85
Brook Lopez was back and Kevin Durant and Russell Westbrook were notably absent, paving the way for the Brooklyn Nets to open the home portion of their schedule with a 116-85 rout of the Oklahoma City Thunder Monday night before a sellout crowd of 17,732.
“We came out and took care of business,” noted head coach Lionel Hollins after watching his team dominate from start to finish en route to the largest margin of victory ever in a Nets home opener, be it here in Brooklyn, across the river in New Jersey or during the franchise’s early years on Long Island.
“We were aggressive and we attacked,” Hollins added, dismissing the fact that the Thunder were without the reigning league MVP in Durant (foot) and his lethal cohort Westbrook (hand), both of whom sat with injuries.