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March 30, 2009
Jefferson has double-double in Bucks win over Nets
AP via Yahoo! Sports
by Tom Canavan
Bruce Ratner's New Jersey Nets pretty much threw in the towel on their season tonight, with a blowout 107-78 home loss to the Milwaukee Bucks. The Nets, losers of five in a row, saw their "tragic" number for missing the post-season drop to three. More tragic for Ratner will be the absence — for the second year running — of any playoff revenue.
Richard Jefferson had 29 points and 10 rebounds against his former teammates and the Milwaukee Bucks snapped a season-high, five-game losing streak with a 107-78 victory over the reeling New Jersey Nets on Monday night.
...Chris Douglas-Roberts had 14 points and Brook Lopez added 10 points and 10 rebounds for New Jersey, which suffered its second embarrassing loss in 24 hours. Minnesota snapped a seven-game losing streak by beating the Nets on Sunday.
That was only a nine-point loss. This one was a blowout, and it was never close after Milwaukee used an 18-0 run in the final 4:51 of the first quarter to 32-13 lead.
...The rest of the game was garbage time, punctuated by boos by the sparse crowd when the Bucks pushed the lead into the 20s and 30s over the final three quarters.
...The loss reduced the Nets’ magic number for being eliminated from playoff contention to three. The Nets have lost 17 of 23 games.
NoLandGrab: Sorry, Hova, we just don't see LBJ wanting to be a part of this act.
Posted by eric at March 30, 2009 10:37 PM