Irving scores 50 in Nets debut, but misses final shot.
Fifty-point Brooklyn debut goes to waste against Timberwolves
Kyrie Irving had the highest-scoring debut for any team in NBA history Wednesday night at Downtown’s Barclays Center.
And in his own words, it all went for naught.
Irving’s record-setting 50-point performance wasn’t enough to prevent the Brooklyn Nets from suffering a heartbreaking season-opening 127-126 overtime loss to the Minnesota Timberwolves in front of a sellout crowd of 17,732 fans on the corner of Atlantic and Flatbush Avenues.