Nets’ three-game winning streak snapped as LeBron James drops 40 to carry Lakers

And when it was over, Brooklyn had suffered a 116-104 loss to the Lakers before a sellout crowd of 18,162 at Barclays Center. The result snapped the Nets’ three-game winning streak — the longest in the Eastern Conference, modest as it was — and saw their tragic number, the combination of Nets losses and Hawks wins that would eliminate them from play-in contention, shaved down to just three. What began with Brooklyn’s own incompetence on offense — missing its first 11 shots to fall behind 17-0 — ended with James’...