Kyrie Irving scored 42 points and the Brooklyn Nets beat the Houston Rockets 118-105 on Tuesday night to improve their position in the race for play-in seeding. Irving scored the game’s next eight points and Brooklyn held a double-digit lead the rest of the way. Brooklyn scored the next eight points and led 30-25 after the first quarter. But those were the last points Brooklyn scored until Irving’s jumper with 8:33 left in the game snapped that 15-0 Houston run. Nets: Brooklyn visits New York on Wednesday.

Source: Fox News April 06, 2022 14:00 UTC