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DENVER -- Paul Pierce scored 18 points and the Brooklyn Nets rebounded from their worst loss more than 10 years by routing the slumping Denver Nuggets 112-89 on Thursday night. Joe Johnson, Marcus Thornton, and Mason Plumlee each added 10 points for the Nets, who snapped a six-game losing streak in Denver. The Nets hadnt won in the Mile High City since a 112-102 victory on Jan. 27, 2007. Randy Foye had 15 points to lead Denver, which has lost four in a row and nine of 10. Brooklyns 7-foot centre Jason Collins, the NBAs first openly gay player appearing in his third game since being signed to a 10-day contract, was given a round of applause from the crowd when he entered the game for the first time with 8:02 left. Collins finished with three points. Before the game, Collins said he planned to meet afterward with the family of Wyoming college student Matthew Shephard, who was tortured and murdered in 1998 because he was gay. Collins wears his No. 98 jersey in Shepards honour, and he said during a pregame news conference that the chance to meet Dennis and Judy Shepard was "one of those cool treats in life." The Nets were coming off a 104-80 loss at Portland the night before, their biggest loss since a 47-point defeat to Memphis on Dec. 13, 2003. But they quickly put that behind them with a runaway win of their own in a game in which they never trailed. Pierce scored 11 points in the third quarter, helping the Nets extend their lead to 38 points. Brooklyn took an 89-56 advantage into the fourth quarter and played reserves for most of the rest of the game. The offensive struggles by Denver, which was without leading scorer Ty Lawson (left rib fracture) for an eighth consecutive game, were epitomized in the first quarter. The Nuggets were held to a season-low eight points on 3-for-18 shooting from the floor (16.7 per cent) and trailed by as many 31 points in the second quarter before managing to get within 23 at the half. It got bad enough for the Nuggets that the crowd, after seeing Timofey Mozgov and Kenneth Faried both miss dunks in the first quarter, cheered derisively when Mozgov hit a layup early in the second. The Nets took advantage of the Nuggets horrible start to pull out to 59-36 halftime lead. Each of 10 Nets players seeing action to that point scored at least once. Denver ended up with as many turnovers in the first quarter as points. NOTES: The Nuggets were also without F Wilson Chandler, who was held out of the game because of sore right knee. ... The previous low for points in a quarter by the Nuggets was 12, against Oklahoma City on Jan. 9. ... The Nets Shaun Livingston made his 33rd start of the year, the most in a season in his career. ... 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"Back in 2011, when they announced that the game was coming here, we knew that it was going to be pretty important that we had a good year and hopefully could get into it, let alone win it, so I felt some pressure obviously within for sure," Taman said Monday, less than 24 hours after the Riders won the championship. Adidas Prophere Canada . -- The Sacramento Kings have claimed forward Travis Outlaw off waivers under the NBAs new amnesty provision, filling out the frontcourt with another veteran.Fontvieille, Monaco (SportsNetwork.com) - Lyon wasted an opportunity to put some distance between themselves and those below them in the table on Sunday after the club was held to a scoreless draw against Monaco at the Stade Louis II. With second and third place Marseille and Paris Saint-Germain, respectively, both notching three points this weekend, Lyon had the opportunity to extend their lead over Marseille to four points with a victory, but the club was held in check by a stout Monaco defense. Lyon entered the day looking for a second straight win following a 2-0 result over Metz last time out, but the finishing was off for the duration of the 90 minutes. Lyon had the better of possession, keeping 57 percent of the ball and firing three atttempts on target, but they could only take one point away from the match to move to 49 points from 23 matches, two clear of Marseille.dddddddddddd Monaco, meanwhile, managed just one attempt on frame and moves to 40 points with the result but they remain seven points behind PSG for the coveted final Champions League place in Ligue 1. Also in Frances top flight on Sunday, Caen moved out of the bottom three with a 1-0 win over Saint Etienne thanks to a 41st-minute strike from Julien Feret. Claudio Beauvue netted his 11th goal of the season in the 28th minute to give Guingamp an early 1-0 lead over Bordeaux, but the visitors failed to hold the lead as Maxime Poundje found the equalizer in the 56th minute, forcing the clubs to share the spoils. ' ' '