The Charlotte Hornets backed up their spectacular triumph against the red-hot San Antonio Spurs with a 105-100 win over the Brooklyn Nets at the Barclays Center on Tuesday evening.

Jeremy Lin carried the Hornets once again, scoring 21 points with four assists coming off the bench and Frenchman Nicolas Batum finished the night with 23 points to lead Charlotte to its 41^st win in 71 games played this season.

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"Jeremy Lin was huge for us," Batum, who made two huge shots down the stretch to key the victory, said. "In the third and fourth, he stepped up again for us. He did it last night in the second quarter to give us life, and he did it again tonight. I don't think we would have won that game if he didn't step up again for us."

Starters Kemba Walker and Frank Kaminsky scored 14 points each for the Hornets, who have won 10 of 12 games and are half a game out of third place in the tight Eastern Conference.

The Hornets ended the first half leading with double digit 46-36. Charlotte continued to pound Brooklyn with an 11-4 run in the early minutes of the third period that gave them a 57-40 advantage with over eight minutes remaining.

However, the Nets rallied with a 24-7 charge that tied the game with 64 all in the last 1:25 minutes of the third quarter before the Hornets scored another three unanswered point to enter the final period leading 67-64.

In the last 4:33 minutes of the final quarter, the Nets were able to close within three 87-84, but Batum nailed a four-point play and put Charlotte up 91-84 with 4:11 left. He hit another three-pointer to extend the lead to 96-88 with 2:44 left to play.

Brooklyn's Bojan Bogdanovic scored five straight points and cut the deficit to just one again 98-97 with 50.1 second to go, but Walker made three of his four free throws in the closing seconds of the game to secure a 100-97 lead before Lin and Batum convert their own free shots with 11.7 ticks left.

Brook Lopez led Brooklyn with 29 points and Sean Kilpatrick had 25 points.

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