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Nets Come Back to Beat Clips in OT Behind Humphries' Perfect Game

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The Nets are still streaking. They came back from 20 points down against the Clippers and shut L.A. down in overtime to pick up their fourth straight win before a sellout crowd, the season's second, at the Prudential Center. While a lot of the 18,711 came to see Blake Griffin, it was Kris Humphries who stole the show. 

Hump had 19 points, a career high 20 rebounds, shot 8 for 8 and played Griffin tough the whole night.

The Clippers took control with an 18-3 run in the first quarter and led by as many as 20 points in the second. But the Nets came all the way back and took the lead late in the third. The game went back and forth from there, with Brook Lopez putting the Nets up one with a layup with three seconds left in regulation. Lopez then fouled Griffin on the other end, but Griffin missed his second free throw, sending the game to overtime, the Nets' third in the last five games. Lopez and Jordan Farmar scored four points apiece in OT, and the Nets held the Clippers to just four to pull out the win. Humphries added to his heroics by twice taking charges on Griffin.

The Nets shot 48 percent for the game. Lopez and Farmar led them with 24 points apiece, with Lopez grabbing seven rebounds and Farmar dishing out seven assists. All of Farmar's points came in the second half.  Travis Outlaw, Sundiata Gaines and Anthony Morrow all finished with nine. Gaines also had five rebounds and six assists in 17 minutes.

                                                                                                                                                                                                               

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