The Brooklyn Nets could almost taste their first win. With just 2.3 seconds left, Jordi Fern\u00e1ndez’s side led by one point at TD Garden and needed only one good defensive stop to pull off a surprise against the Celtics. But then Jayson Tatum got the ball. And their chances of winning vanished in an instant.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The forward caught the pass and, despite having two defenders on him, had no trouble turning towards the middle and getting to the free-throw line. Once there, there was nothing Keon Ellis’s attempt at a contest could do. The buzzer sounded with the ball in the air, and moments later it went through the hoop to confirm that Tatum had reached 40 points, that Mazzulla’s side took the win and that the Nets will have to keep rowing to open their account, however good the feelings may have been.<\/p>\n\n\n\n