Reggie!, Reggie!: Evans’ hustle highlights Nets’ landmark OT win over Knicks
Reggie Evans and the Nets have bigger fish to fry than the New York Knicks.
“We’re not just interested in being the best team in New York. We want to win championships!” Brooklyn’s 6-foot-8, 245-pound dynamo of a power forward intimated before the Nets even hit the court for their city landscape-changing 96-89 victory over the Knicks Monday night in front of a national television audience and a bi-partisan sellout crowd of 17,732 at Downtown’s Barclays Center.
Evans, perhaps more than any Net, exemplified his team’s determination to emerge victorious from the first-ever “Clash of the Boroughs” at the state-of-the-art-arena on the corners of Atlantic and Flatbush Avenues.
He grabbed an eye-popping 14 rebounds in only 18 minutes, including six on the offensive end, on a night the Nets needed to outhustle and outmuscle their East River rivals to forge a tie atop the Atlantic Division standings with identical 9-4 records.