And you thought the Nets’ road trip was bad?
Apparently Brooklyn hadn’t bottomed out. Not even close.
The decimated Nets got thrashed in humbling fashion at home, outplayed and outclassed from start to finish in a 113-83 loss to Boston before a sellout crowd of 17,732 at Barclays Center.
It stretched their losing streak to nine straight games, the longest in the NBA and their worst since dropping 16 straight from Jan. 21-Feb. 25, 2017.
That skid came in the midst of a league-worst 20-62 campaign, Sean Marks’ first full season as general manager. That was at the very start of an arduous rebuild. This was supposed to be the apex of that climb. But they’re teetering precariously, and one has to wonder if Steve Nash’s messaging is getting stale.
“It’s not come up,” said Nash when asked if he was getting heat from the front office. “I think we recognize the position we’re in; we’re undermanned. We know what our record was…