
--The Nets made it 16 straight games in which they have not out-rebounded an opponent when the Nuggets manhandled them, 51-31, off the backboards in a 121-96 rout Monday in Denver.
"We just got dominated inside with our inability to hit bodies and get the ball," said coach Lawrence Frank, whose Nets have been out-rebounded by more than eight a game in the 16-game stretch. --G Devin Harris suffered a sprained left shoulder in Sunday's defeat at Los Angeles against the Clippers. Harris missed the last 20:53 of Sunday's game and sat Monday at Denver. Harris will be out for at least a week.
QUOTE TO NOTE: "They wanted it a lot more than we did, not a little more, a lot more." -- G Vince Carter after the Nets were roundly beaten in rebounds and points in the paint by the Nuggets in Denver.