With 2:31 left to play, Brooklyn's Trevor Booker made a layup to cut the Celtics' lead to 10 points and Boston coach Brad Stevens pointed at his resting starters and told them to get back on the floor. The Nets had erased most of a 23-point deficit against the Boston backups, and they would make it an eight-point game before Stevens got his first team back in. "It's a reminder of how quickly things can turn in this league," Stevens said after his starters preserved a 122-117 victory in the season opener on Wednesday night. "I probably will be less likely to leave them in that long if we're in a similar scenario. Hopefully we learn from it, and we're not." Read more http://www.espn.com/nba/recap?gameId=400899380
