Dennis Schroder led the way with 31 points and the Brooklyn Nets rallied from 18 points down in the third quarter on the second night of a back-to-back set to stun the Golden State Warriors 128-120 in San Francisco on Monday night.

No Cam Thomas, no Nic Claxton, no Cam Johnson, no Ben Simmons, no Dorian Finney Smith, no problem. The Nets, who have fallen just short against top teams all season, pulled off perhaps the biggest upset in the NBA this season,

Teams are competing and not blatantly exercising organizational priorities, and in a culture where we’re waiting for the next “trades we want to see” piece to drop, I like that NBA Cup games take place just after the glorified feel-out games that mark the opening weeks of the season and wrap up just before all of those new contracts become tradeable.