With 10:22 remaining in the first quarter, Brooklyn Nets rookie Egor Demin splashed home his second three in a row, giving the Nets a 6-4 lead. After that, the game effectively ended.
From there, the New York Knicks promptly scored 14 unanswered and never looked back. In fact, after Demin’s two threes, it took Michael Porter Jr. (who received the ninth most Eastern Conference All-Star votes) about 23 minutes to surpass him for the most Nets points with seven.
Even though the Nets played their best basketball of the night in the second quarter, they still found themselves down 22 at the break, and their struggles continued. By the beginning of the second half, up 60-38 at the break (Brooklyn’s lowest scoring first half of the season), the Knicks were no longer thinking only about holding the lead; they were thinking about making history.
What history? Here it comes: The Nets started the fourth quarter by not scoring for seven minutes. Brooklyn also finished the frame with 10 points. That is the least amount of points EVER scored by the Nets in a quarter in franchise history.
When the final buzzer sounded at 120-66, the 54-point win was the largest margin of victory for New York ever.
As for Brooklyn, it was the lowest amount of points they’ve scored in a game since they tallied 65 against the Miami Heat in March of 2005. This was the second-worst margin of defeat in team history, only behind last year’s 126-67, 59-point gap to the Los Angeles Clippers.
Brooklyn holds still with only two wins in 2026, having lost 11 of their last 13. For many Nets fans, losing is the way to go for the remainder of the season, as the franchise looks to bolster their odds of getting a blue-chip prospect in this June’s draft. Though losing may be the best in the long run, that certainly wasn’t the way nobody wants to lose like they did to the Knicks.
