![]() ![]() ![]() Robert Sabo for the NY POST Yankees legend Mariano Rivera had a front-row seat to Kyrie Irving’s 21-point fourth quarter outburst that helped the Nets close out the Knicks. Kyrie Irving, who scored 32 points, dribbles up court during the Nets’ 122-115 win over the Knicks. Irving sat for the final 3:16 of the third period, and while he was out, a Nets lead that had reached 18 was narrowed to seven. “ is just going to show up every single time in the fourth quarter. “I think he leads the league in points in the fourth quarter,” Nic Claxton said of Irving, who now has 356 fourth-quarter points this season, 9.4 per game. Kyrie Irving emerged from the bench following a third-quarter breather to play the entire fourth quarter, scoring 21 of his 32 points to help the Nets seize control of a game that had hung in the balance and take a 122-115 victory over the Knicks. When the Nets, who were playing without the injured Kevin Durant and Ben Simmons, needed a late-game weapon, there was just one player to turn to - the most prolific fourth-quarter scorer in the NBA. Mariano Rivera, who might have received the largest ovation of the night Saturday, watched from among the Barclays Center crowd as a different kind of New York closer took over. The new Nets leadership dynamics emerging in the wake of superstar defections How Post’s basketball experts see Knicks, Nets’ second half unfolding Kevin Durant and Kyrie Irving: Players forcing trades ‘great’ for NBA ![]() Will the Knicks and Nets Make the Playoffs? ![]()
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