Surging Nets deliver ‘The Big Payback’
Embarrass slumping Knicks at Madison Square Garden
Consider the debt paid in full.
Six weeks ago, the Knicks came to the Barclays Center and ended a nine-game losing streak with a 113-83 demolition of the Nets, dropping Brooklyn to 5-14 en route to what would be a humbling 10-21 start to the season for Mikhail Prokhorov’s $180 million-plus team.
“They came into our building and embarrassed us, so we wanted to return the favor,” admitted Andray Blatch after putting up 19 points and pulling down 12 rebounds in the Nets’ 103-80 Martin Luther King Day rout of the Knicks before a packed house at Madison Square Garden and a national television audience.