Nets hope Nic Claxton can build on career-high defensive performance in Game 4 Claxton — who was badly outplayed by Tristian Thompson in Game 3 — flipped the script in Game 4 recording a career-high four blocks in just eight minutes of play. Despite not scoring in the dominant win, the Nets young big was +14 Sunday night — third-highest on the team — and provided Brooklyn a game-changing spark. Replacing Blake Griffin at the 4:49 mark in the first. He recorded two big blocks in 2:44 minutes of play in the first frame — one emphatic rejection on a driving layup attempt by Jayson Tatum and the other on Evan Fournier’s 3-foot push shot. Claxton started the second for Brooklyn with Boston up 34-33. In the Celtics' first offensive possession of the frame, the Nets big swatted a four-foot shot from Semi Ojeleye, and two possessions later, he went out on the perimeter and blocked Grant Williams’ 23-foot three to spark the Nets offensive onslaught, an extended 23-10 run.