The Boston Celtics play the Brooklyn Nets in an NBA Cup in-season tournament group play matchup. Friday's meeting will be the second of the season between the two teams.

In another night where the Brooklyn Nets failed to eclipse 100 points, Day'Ron Sharpe played one of his best games of the season in just 18 minutes off the benc

The Brooklyn Nets (2-12) have been having a tough time this season trying to string together wins as they look to incorporate some of the rookies within playing against real NBA t

Derrick White added 15 points for the Celtics, who won their third straight game to improve to 8-7. They played the Nets even for about three quarters before smothering them defensively in the fourth, allowing just one basket for the first 10 minutes of the period.

Brooklyn Nets coach Jordi Fernandez didn't want to dwell on the negatives after their loss to the Boston Celtics on Tuesday.

BOTTOM LINE: Brooklyn plays Boston looking to end its six-game home slide. The Nets are 2-8 against Eastern Conference opponents. Brooklyn ranks last in the Eastern Conference scoring 41.7 points per game in the paint. The Celtics are 1-3 against opponents in the Atlantic Division. Boston is 4-3 in games decided by at least 10 points.

One might think that the Sacramento Kings coaching staff did not think much of starting Boston Celtics big man Neemias Queta given the team cut him in favor of older centers who were on their way out of the NBA.

Nets head coach Jordi Fernandez is pleased with his team's progress during recent games following a historically bad start to the season.