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Follow the Nets' return to New York with Newsday's Rod Boone.

Three Pointers: No More Beantown Bullying

Paul Pierce and Rajon Rondo of the Boston

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ORLANDO, Fla. -- They were wearing their black road uniforms, not ripped jeans and crusty old white T-shirts that Steve Lombardi sported during his latter days in the WWF.

But the Nets still played the role of the Brooklyn Brawler in Wednesday night’s 95-83 win over the Celtics at TD Garden, refusing to back down when Rajon Rondo went hard at Kris Humphries at the end of the first half. That...

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