Frank has Nets on winning streak

EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. (AP) -- Nobody can start the Nets on a winning streak quite like coach Lawrence Frank.

In the last 30 years, New Jersey has been on a 10-game winning streak or better all of five times. The last three all came under Frank.

New Jersey is on a 12-game roll, two victories away from the franchise record set, perhaps not coincidentally, when Frank took over for the fired Byron Scott two season ago.

Frank's job was at risk when New Jersey fell to 9-12 with a particularly galling home loss to Charlotte back in December.

Since then, there have been mainly peaks for the Nets, who won 10 games in a row after that loss, and are 35-16 since mid-December.