Nets take it ‘on the chin’ in Beantown
League-best Celtics beat up Brooklyn from opening bell
The Brooklyn Nets suffered a first-quarter knockout loss at league-best Boston on Wednesday night.
Unfortunately, they had to play out the last three periods as well against the team that swept them out of last year’s playoffs.
The reigning Eastern Conference champions used a huge first quarter and led by as many as 49 points en route to an embarrassingly easy 139-96 rout of the Kevin Durant-less Nets in front of 19,156 fans at TD Garden.