Good teams find a way to win. Bad teams let wins slip between their fingers.
The Nets are trying to buck an early bad-team trend — their inability to close winnable games in the fourth quarter. That’s what it took for Brooklyn to come away with its second win in a row, a come-from-behind 98-84 victory over the Charlotte Hornets that featured a momentum-swinging late-game run.
Kevin Durant powered a 12-0 Nets run midway through the fourth quarter after the Hornets ran up a double-digit lead. It is the team’s second straight victory in the absence of Kyrie Irving, who is away from the team serving a minimum five-game suspension for posting an antisemitic film on his social media channels. It was also another game the Nets played without Ben Simmons, the embattled star forward battling a combination of back issues and a swollen left knee.
