The Nets will be down a man when they face the Pacers in Indianapolis tomorrow.
After re-injuring his right knee in a fall early in the third quarter of last night’s 94-73 loss to the Raptors at Prudential Center, DeShawn Stevenson told The Post he won’t be making the trip.
“Somebody tripped me up, and I fell on my knee,” said Stevenson, who went scoreless in just over 12 minutes.
When Stevenson left the game, the Nets said he was likely to return with a bruised right knee, and he played for less than two minutes in the fourth quarter before returning to the bench again.
“He banged his knee, and he wasn’t moving well,” coach Avery Johnson said after the game. “We know he needs a little bit of a rest, but we’ve just been down some bodies, especially with [MarShon] Brooks being out. We’ll see how he feels [today].”
***One of the few positives to come out of the loss was the return of Brooks.
“It felt good,” said the rookie guard, who missed the previous three games with a sore left Achilles tendon. “I didn’t feel anything.”
Brooks scored six points on 3-for-10 shooting in 21:57 off the bench.
“I was just a little hesitant [and] thinking too much when I was out there,” he said. “I didn’t make a decisive move all night, and I just got to get back to doing what I was doing before.”
***The Nets were again without starting center Mehmet Okur, who sat for the second straight game with back spasms. Okur had an MRI exam, which was negative, but he is likely to miss at least tomorrow’s game at Indiana.
To provide depth while Okur is sidelined, the Nets recalled rookie forward Jordan Williams from the Springfield Armor, their D-League affiliate. The Nets’ second-round pick averaged 10.5 points, 7.8 rebounds and 1.7 blocks in 32 minutes in six games with the Armor.
***The season-long shooting woes at home for the Nets continued last night. After shooting just under 39 percent from the field and 29 percent from 3-point range at Prudential Center in their first seven home games, the Nets went 27-for-74 (36.5 percent) from the field and 7-for-22 (32 percent) from 3-point range against the Raptors.
In 13 road games, the Nets are shooting nearly 44 percent from the field and 39 percent from 3-point range.