Mason Plumlee isn't ready to give up his spot in the starting lineup.
The second-year center finished with 19 points, 13 rebounds and three blocks in a career-high 41 minutes Tuesday night, pairing with Joe Johnson to lead the Nets on a 19-4 fourth-quarter run to come from behind and beat the Nuggets, 102-96, in front of 17,080 inside Barclays Center.
After Darius Morris had given the Nets (12-15) a 78-77 lead with a layup to open the fourth quarter, the Nuggets (12-17) responded with eight straight points to take their biggest lead of the second half. But just when it looked like the Nets were about to let this one slip away, Plumlee gave them a much-needed energy boost.
After he threw down a dunk at one end, Plumlee blocked Jusuf Nurkic's dunk attempt at the other and then made a reverse layup while being fouled by Nate Robinson to pull the Nets to within three and wake up what had been a dormant crowd.
And after Plumlee got things started, Johnson took care of the rest, scoring eight of his 27 points in the fourth quarter — including a fallaway jumper with Wilson Chandler draped all over him with 2:41 remaining that gave the Nets a 97-89 lead, capping the 19-4 surge and that gave them a second straight win.
Plumlee's performance came in Brook Lopez's return to the court, after he missed the previous eight games because of a strained lower back. Lopez, who finished with six points and four rebounds in seven minutes, had not come off the bench since November 2008, the eighth game of his rookie season.
On Tuesday, Lopez checked in at the start of the second quarter, and the Nets immediately tried to feature him in the low post. But Lopez showed the rust that was expected, He had his first shot attempt blocked by Nurkic, and then badly missed a jumper on the next trip.
Lopez made a nice drive to the rim past Nurkic for a score a short time later, and checked out after getting two points and two boards in 4:20 of court time in the first half.
The Nets, in a rare occurrence, actually played well in the second quarter, and took a 47-37 lead on a Bojan Bogdanovic 3-pointer with five minutes left in the half. But the Nuggets immediately responded with a 10-2 run to cut the Nets' lead to 49-47 on a Wilson Chandler dunk, and the Nets went into the half with a 58-54 lead.
Denver was the more aggressive team in the third, however, going on a 13-4 run early in the quarter to take its first lead since the first quarter on a Lawson 3-pointer, a lead the Nuggets held for nearly the rest of the third. They took a 77-76 advantage into the fourth.
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