The Nets finally won a game, but lost a couple of starters.
Brooklyn saw Cam Johnson and Noah Clowney both forced off the floor with injuries in the final minutes of a pyrrhic 115-112 victory over Washington.
Tyrese Martin scored 20 points to share team-high scoring honors with Jalen Wilson, and engineered the go-ahead bucket with :08 left in regulation.
After a timeout, he ran a two-man game with Drew Timme, who scored the winner.
Brooklyn rallied from a 17 point deficit. Timme had 19 points and six boards in his second NBA game.
“That’s what we drew up,” Timme said in a postgame TV interview. “They goaltended but I think it was going in anyway.
“Coach told us basically to nut up, in a PG way. He was like y’all got to (fight). they got 23 free throws, we have three or four. You can say it’s the refs all you want, but at the end of the day you’ve got to attack. You’ve got to make them make calls. So offensively and defensively we had to be more aggressive and thats what we tried to do.”
The Nets (24-51) snapped a six-game losing skid, a win that could prove costly.
It dropped them percentage points behind Philadelphia for fifth in the lottery standings, trailing a 76ers team clearly determined to tank.
They also saw Cam Johnson come off with four minutes left following a hard fall on his back/tailbone.
Then a minute later Clowney twisted the same right ankle that had sidelined him earlier this season.
The Wizards (16-58) were coming off the worst loss in franchise history, a 162-109 home beating at the hands of Indiana on Thursday
