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ATLANTA (AP) -- Kenyon Martin is one rookie who has his role down
pat.
Martin's dunk off a missed layup by Stephon Marbury with 30.3 seconds left Saturday night lifted the New Jersey Nets to an 89-83 victory over the Atlanta Hawks.
"That's what I do," said the 6-foot-10 No. 1 draft pick out of Cincinnati. "I was going to the offensive glass the whole game, but it just wasn't falling the way I wanted it to fall. It finally fell my way."
Said Marbury, who led the Nets with 23 points: "It was a big play, spectacular. He stepped up when we needed him."
It was the third win in four games for the Nets, who had
previously lost nine in a row. It also was New Jersey's first win
at Atlanta since Jan. 21, 1994, ending a string of 10 losses there.
Martin's basket put the Nets ahead for good at 84-83. It came 13
seconds after Jason Terry put the Hawks up 83-82 with a 3-pointer.
Terry turned the ball over nine seconds after Martin's dunk, and Marbury converted a three-point play with 16.5 seconds left to make it 87-83.
"I had a shot and should have taken it," Terry said of his bad
pass, which was intercepted by New Jersey's Lucious Harris.
"Even if I had missed it, it would have been better than
throwing it away. If I had to do it again, I'd shoot the ball. That
was the game."
Nets reserve Kendall Gill, who had missed four games with tendinitis in his right knee, scored 19 points, including seven in
the fourth quarter. Martin and Aaron Williams each scored 12 points.
Atlanta's Dikembe Mutombo and Roshown McLeod scored 15 points
apiece. Lorenzen Wright added 14, Terry 13, Matt Maloney 12 and Larry Robinson 10.
The Nets overcame a 46-41 halftime deficit to take the lead
after three quarters at 68-67 on a basket by Gill with 10 seconds
left in the period.
Mutombo scored 10 of his points in the second quarter when Atlanta took its biggest lead -- 44-32.
Marbury, however, scored seven of the Nets' next nine points to close the gap by the end of the half.
Game notes
The Hawks (6-18) were trying to win two games in a row for
the first time this season. They beat Chicago 85-74 on Friday
night. ... Alan Henderson, the Hawks' second-leading scorer (15.3),
was a late scratch from the starting lineup and did not play,
although he was in uniform. He has been having problems with a
sprained left shoulder. Henderson had his streak of 105 consecutive
starts end. "It just got to the point where it was too much pain
to play with, where I wasn't going to be effective," Henderson
said.
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New Jersey 89
Atlanta 83
Charlotte 99
Boston 87
Cleveland 99
Utah 92
Minnesota 113
Indiana 110
Philadelphia 99
Chicago 91
Denver 102
Houston 100
San Antonio 90
Phoenix 82
Miami 93
Golden State 85
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