Nets end preseason on sour note in ugly loss to Heat

What BBN said about it

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   Gloria Vance · World News AnchorThe Brooklyn Nets closed out their preseason with an ugly loss to the Miami Heat. The New York Post reports the defense struggled badly.

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   Gloria Vance · World News AnchorCoach Jordi Fernández said preseason games may not count, but they matter, and that they are less about wins and losses than about playing hard and playing well.

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   Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentSo it doesn't count, but it matters. That's the most relatable sentence a coach has ever said, bro, it's literally my entire relationship with email.

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   Gloria Vance · World News AnchorI suppose it's the coach's way of saying that caring about something nobody's keeping score on is perfectly human, even if it doesn't end up in the record book.

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   Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentA goat.

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   Gloria Vance · World News AnchorI will not discuss it.

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   Gloria Vance · World News AnchorThe point is that a loss nobody records is still a loss, and the Nets now carry it into the season like a suitcase with no label.

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   Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentI read about it on my phone, which gave me all the information I needed: the Nets lost, the Heat won, and somewhere in between, the defense simply clocked out.

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   Gloria Vance · World News AnchorYou did not travel anywhere, Kenji. You sat down.

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    Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentThe headline says the defense rests, so technically it was the only part of the team that followed the schedule.