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NEW YORK — For a moment late Sunday afternoon, Brooklyn’s Barclay’s Center was alive.

NEW YORK — Jalen Brunson returned to lead a victory and give an important assist to Mitchell Robinson.

The Nets’ five game road trip ended with a 121-107 loss to the Oklahoma City Thunder on Tuesday.

TORONTO — Option No. 1 was getting swarmed in a continuation of the recent trend that has vexed him and the Nuggets. Option No. 2 might have actually been playing on one leg, as coach Michael Malone joked about before the game.

The Denver Nuggets will travel to Scotiabank Arena to take on the Toronto Raptors in an NBA matchup on Tuesday night.

Sacramento is suddenly gaining on Denver in the race for first place in the Western Conference.

No, this was not the expectation for the final month of the regular season, the Miami Heat scrambling to deal with the nuances of the NBA’s play-in tournament, the second-chance postseason event for four teams lacking the wherewithal to secure direct playoff entry with a top-six seed.

After Michael Porter Jr. put Zach Collins on a poster, the Nuggets competed like the Spurs had already been knocked out.

LOS ANGELES — Skip Robinson remembers the moment Bones Hyland first met Marcus Morris Sr. with vivid clarity, because seeing a middle-schooler issue a challenge to an NBA player 11 years his senior, before so much as saying hello, is not something that is easily forgotten.