The victory allowed the Owls, who ended regular-season play ranked first last season, to avoid the worst start in school history.
They also dropped consecutive home games in regular-season play for the first time since November 1990.
In regular-season play for his career, he has 891 goals and 1,937 assists.
The playoffs, which began on May 18, featured the top eight teams from regular-season play, seeded by league position.
Can regular-season play be any worse than it was tonight for the Nets?
They are meant to be frequent scenes from a long-running regular-season play.
The strike date is the beginning of the last week of regular-season play.
They defeated the Nets for an eighth consecutive time in regular-season play.
When they both became members of the same division in 2008, they began regular-season play.
Cleveland was 8-0 in the exhibition season and is 4-0 in regular-season play.