Nets use blistering tear for comeback win over Hawks to snap three-game skid

Brooklyn snapped a three-game losing skid with a 122-114 come-from-behind victory over Atlanta before a sellout crowd of 17,926 at Barclays Center on Sunday night.Trailing by eight late in the third, the Nets grabbed the win with a 31-8 run.Cam Johnson had a game-high-tying 28 points and career-high-tying seven assists, stepping up after the season-ending injury to Cam Thomas.Keon Johnson scored 22 points, while Tyrese Martin stood in for sidelined point guard D’Angelo Russell with 16 points.Hawks star Trae Young finished with a game-high-tying 28 points, a dozen assists and six rebounds for Atlanta (32-36).Brooklyn (23-45) is a game ahead of Philadelphia and 1 ¹/₂ ahead of Toronto for fifth in the lottery odds with 14 games to play.The Nets led by as many as 12 early on, with Cam Johnson finding Maxwell Lewis for a layup and a 45-33 cushion.It still was 50-41 after Keon Johnson’s free throw with 5:18 left in the second quarter.But the Nets coughed up an 18-4 run that left them down 59-54 with 55 seconds left in the half.They trailed by six going into the locker room and still were down 86-78 after a Vit Krejcí 3-pointer with 3:25 left in the third.But unlike so many of their recent games in this recent malaise, this time, the Nets didn’t fold late.They fought.They went on an extended 31-8 run that spanned the periods, including the last 10 unanswered to seize control of the game.

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Enjoy this Post Sports+ exclusive newsletter! Lewis found Keon Johnson for a corner 3-pointer to get the Nets within 92-91 to end the third.And Day’Ron Sharpe got inside for a go-ahead bucket to open the fourth.

Cam Johnson’s layup made it 95-92, and the Nets seized the momentum.Trailing 99-98 after Young...