The Brooklyn Nets will face the Detroit Pistons in an NBA game that will be live streaming online free from the Palace of Auburn Hills in Detroit at 7:30 PM ET.
Brooklyn has turned around their season as they seek a third straight victory while trying to hand visiting Detroit its seventh loss in nine games Friday night.
The Nets (22-25) have gone 12-4 in 2014 to climb into the Eastern Conference playoff picture despite dropping 21 of their first 31.
Brooklyn had lost three straight -- two by one point -- but has bounced back with wins over Philadelphia on Monday and San Antonio on Thursday.
Deron Williams scored 16 points in his third straight start after making six appearances as a reserve following his return from an ankle injury. Alan Anderson came off the bench for the second time in three games after starting 11 straight.
"We've got the pieces," Anderson said. "We're finally starting to turn the corner a lot more lately. I just want to win no matter how much I'm playing."
Joe Johnson, the All Star selection, is going through a tough stretch and finished with eight points. After averaging 22.9 points and shooting 51.7 percent from the field in seven games from Jan. 6-21, Johnson has averaged 9.3 while shooting 37 percent over his last six. He didn't play Monday because of a right knee injury.
The Pistons are in ninth place in the Eastern Conference and 3 1/2 games behind the seventh-place Nets.
"We just have to take care of the things we're capable of taking care of," Cheeks told the team's official website, "and that's playing those teams, playing Brooklyn tomorrow and then playing (eighth-place) Charlotte (in a home-and-home) after the (All-Star) break. "Those are teams we need to beat in order to get ahead of them."
Kyle Singler made his second start of the season Wednesday and scored 11 points. Cheeks said he's likely to start again in this contest ahead of rookie Kentavious Caldwell-Pope, who had started the previous 40.
"You knew it wasn't going to be easy for him after starting so many games to come off the bench," Cheeks said of Caldwell-Pope. "KCP is a good kid and he's a good player, so he will adjust to it, no matter what."
Andre Drummond (13 rebounds) and Greg Monroe (11 boards) had 22 points apiece in the last meeting with the Nets.
The game will be live streaming on nbaliveonline.tv/streaming
