The game between the Philadelphia 76ers and Brooklyn Nets will take place at Wells Fargo Center on Saturday, April 15 at 1:00 PM ET.
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The Philadelphia 76ers will welcome the Brooklyn Nets to the Wells Fargo Center for an NBA game on Saturday. The Philadelphia 76ers won 105-134 in their last game over the Nets. Shake Milton couldn’t wait for next weekend. Once Cam Thomas got hot, Milton started competing at a playoff level even in an otherwise meaningless finale.
The 76ers guard scored 20 points and chased Thomas all over the floor in the fourth quarter to keep him at 46 points, and Philadelphia beat the Brooklyn Nets 134-105 on Sunday. “I just tried to take the challenge,” Milton said. “Didn’t want him to get 50. Tried to get everybody to be on the same page to not let him get 50. But that’s just part of the competitive nature, that’s all.”
The teams face each other next weekend to begin the first round of the NBA playoffs. Doc Rivers joked that all he wanted from the game was to go quickly enough so he could watch the Masters, but saw what it meant to his players when they started double-teaming Thomas without asking him. “We went into our playoff prevent defense,” he said.
The Brooklyn Nets on the other hand lost 105-134 against the 76ers in their last game. Thomas reached 40 points for the fourth time this season after doing it in three consecutive games in early February before falling out of the rotation after the Nets brought in four new starters in the trades for Kevin Durant and Kyrie Irving. He had 42 after three quarters Sunday and made two quick baskets after checking back into the game with 9:16 remaining. Milton soon after began defending the Nets guard well away from the basket, even when he didn’t have the ball.
Even after Milton departed in the final minutes, the 76ers continued running second defenders at Thomas to keep him from scoring again, adding some spice to an otherwise meaningless matchup. “It is what it is,” Thomas said. “Final game, last game of the season. We’ve got another season coming up so hopefully we can get them then.” Their first-round series was set up Friday when the Nets clinched the No. 6 seed. The Sixers had already been resting their top players and the Nets were finally able to do the same Sunday.
Nets coach Jacque Vaughn let Bridges play to extend his ironman streak, but with instructions to foul quickly and get out of the game. Once the 76ers won the opening tip, Bridges hurried over to grab Milton and was immediately subbed out. After starting 56 games for Phoenix before coming to Brooklyn in the trade for Kevin Durant, Bridges started the Nets’ final 27. He became the 42nd NBA player to play in 83 or more games in a season and the first since Josh Smith for Detroit and Houston in 2014-15.
Philadelphia 76ers: Danuel House Jr., Jalen McDaniels, Paul Reed, Shake Milton, Jaden Springer
Brooklyn Nets: Cam Thomas, Yuta Watanabe, Day’Ron Sharpe, Patty Mills, Mikal Bridges
Philadelphia 76ers: Danuel House Jr., Dewayne Dedmon, Tyrese Maxey, De’Anthony Melton, James Harden, Georges Niang, P.J. Tucker, Tobias Harris
Brooklyn Nets: Royce O’Neale, Seth Curry, Cameron Johnson, Edmond Sumner, Dorian Finney-Smith, Ben Simmons
The game between the Philadelphia 76ers and Brooklyn Nets will take place at Wells Fargo Center on Saturday, April 15 at 1:00 PM ET.
The match between the Philadelphia 76ers and Brooklyn Nets will be telecast live on ESPN, NBC Sports Philadelphia.
| Country | Channel | Date and Time |
| United States | ESPN, NBC Sports Philadelphia. | April 15 (1:00 PM ET) |
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