The MVP of the night was Kris Humphries of the New Jersey Nets. Humphries out worked and outplayed everyone on the floor and was clearly the best player on either side tonight.Humphries grabbed a career-high 23 rebounds and scored 18 points, he also had several key plays down the stretch in overtime. He lead New Jersey to just its fifth road win with a 98-94 victory on Wednesday night, over the Cleveland Cavaliers.
The win improved the Nets road record to 5-29 and snapped a four-game losing streak, Two of those five road wins have come against the Cleveland Cavaliers.
While the Nets snapped their four-game losing streak, the Cavaliers are now on a four-game losing streak and have also lost seven straight at home.
Sessions scored 21 points and JJ Hickson had 17 points and grabbed 17 rebounds for the Cavs, but it wasn't enough as Humphries made the bigger plays.
In the final minute of OT, Humphries blocked Daniel Gibson go-ahead layup, grabbed his 23rd rebound, made two key free throws and stole the ball from Ramon Sessions.
Anthony Parker made the potential game-winner in regulation but the Nets Brook Lopez made a put-back and tied the game with 4.2 seconds in regulation. Anthony Parker again got the ball for the game winner but was off and the game went into overtime.
From there, Humphries controlled OT and the Cavaliers were always a step behind.
The game wasn't pretty by all means, the Cavaliers shot just 37 percent from the field with 16 turnovers. New Jersey wasn't any better, the Nets shot only 34 percent but it was enough to pull out the victory.
Baron Davis missed his third straight game with back spasms and is expected to be the Cavaliers starting point guard when he does return.
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