NEW YORK — All he needed was a little bit of rest.
Fresh off two days of rest for the first time since becoming a full-time player, Kyrie Irving pelted the Rockets with a barrage of treys to power the Nets to a 118-105 victory over Houston on Tuesday.
Irving scored 11 points in the opening period and finished with 42 on 8-of-16 shooting from downtown and 13-of-24 shooting from the field altogether. It was one of his more efficient scoring games of the latter stretch of the season, a get-right game for a superstar guard who had struggled to score in his last few games.
