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. ... Brooklyn improved to 4-10 in the second of back to back games. ... Since the beginning of January, the Nets have gone 17-8, fourth-best among Eastern Conference teams in that stretch. ... Denver, historically one of the teams with the strongest home-court advantage, fell to 14-15 at the Pepsi Center this season. ... All 13 Nets playing in the game scored. Vita Vea Jersey . The commissioners office said Friday that Sears tested positive for metabolites of Methandienone. Sears will be 23 in March. He signed with the Braves in June 2013 out of Arizona Christian, an NAIA school, and is on the roster of the rookie-level Gulf Coast League Braves. Tampa Bay Buccaneers Jerseys . Its the second time this season that Milan has been sanctioned by the league judge, after fans also subjected Napoli supporters to discriminatory chants. 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Low and behold it all worked out fine and they were able to go through their roster again after everyone had a shot, but what if someone couldnt shoot before the end of the first go through? Say perhaps that someone had been given a game misconduct, left hurt, or the less likely scenario of playing one player short for salary cap purposes. What would happen after Team A had let 17 shooters go and their 18th player was unavailable? Would they be able to go back to Player 1 while Team B was forced to use player 18? This seems like a lopsided solution if it is the case! What is your interpretation of this rule? I sure hope that if the shootout ends up staying for much longer, we have a lot more games that run through this many shooters! Cheers, Corey Corey: The record setting 20-round shootout win by Roberto Luongo and the Florida Panthers over Braden Holtby and the Washington Capitals was highly entertaining for sure. We saw fantastic saves by both goalies (sometimes with a little help from the iron) along with clutch goals scored by players of both teams in order to keep the shootout going. With the rally caps on backwards, both teams went completely through the batting order and two players shot twice before Nick Bjugstad bested Alex Ovechkin in the bottom of the 20th. Unless the outcome is determined by the first three shooters all remaining eligible players from each team can participate in the sudden death format. No player may shoot twice until everyone who is eligible has shot. All players are eligible unless they are serving a ten-minute misconduct, or have been assessed a game misconduct or match penalty.dddddddddddd. When a goalkeeper has been assessed a misconduct, the player designated to serve the misconduct penalty becomes ineligible for the shootout. If the misconduct is assessed to the goalkeeper during the course of the shootout, the player designated to serve the misconduct must be a player who has yet to shoot and thus becomes ineligible. To clarify, any player that was serving a minor, double minor or major penalty when the overtime period expired is eligible to participate in the shootout. You might also have noticed that prior to the start of the 19th round in the Panthers-Caps shootout, referees Tim Peel and Rob Martell took a moment to confer with the penalty time keeper to make sure every eligible player from both teams had taken a shot. This speaks to your question Corey concerning a potential imbalance of eligible players, which I will now address. Corey, your concern regarding the unfairness attributed to a possible numerical difference between the two rosters is clarified in rule 84.4. “If, because of injury or penalty, one team has fewer players eligible for the shootout, both teams may select from among the players who have already shot. This procedure would continue until the team with fewer players has again used all eligible shooters.” This is interpreted to mean that if Team A has only 16 eligible shooters compared to Team B’s 18 eligible shooters, once they enter the 17th round both teams are allowed to select a player that has already participated in the shootout. Team B is therefore not required to utilize the 17th and 18th shooters on their depth chart. Given the entertainment value that the shootout provides, I don’t think we have to worry about it being discontinued any time soon, if ever. 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