No stunt in Nets’ growth sans LeVert
Brooklyn finding a way to stay relevant despite top scorer
Just over a week ago, the Brooklyn Nets looked like a team on the verge of succumbing to the loss of one of its most important players for a third consecutive season.
The previous two years, it was a devastating injury to Jeremy Lin that had sent Brooklyn into a tailspin.
On Nov. 14 at Barclays Center, the Nets, playing their first game since leading scorer Caris LeVert went down for several months with a dislocated right foot, hardly put up a fight in a 120-107 loss to Miami that saw the Heat score 70 points in the paint.