Milwaukee Bucks vs Brooklyn Nets | Full highlights, recap, triple overtime

The Nets and Milwaukee Bucks played three overtimes here for the second time this season, the home team pulling this one out 129-127 Friday night despite Kidd's team pulling down an NBA season-high 81 rebounds.

Brook Lopez had 32 points and a season-high 18 rebounds, throwing down a powerful dunk on a three-point play to open the scoring in the third OT, and the Nets finally held on to hand the Bucks their fifth straight loss. It's the first time teams played two triple-overtime games against each other in the same season, according to research provided to the Nets by Elias.

Zaza Pachulia had 22 points, 21 rebounds - an NBA season-high 18 offensive - and seven assists for Milwaukee.

"It was a great fight," Kidd said. "Everybody spent a lot of energy tonight, but that's what it takes for us to win and unfortunately we came up with the `L'.

Thaddeus Young scored 24 points and Joe Johnson had 20 for the Nets, who stopped a four-game home losing streak.

Khris Middleton finished with 29 points, eight rebounds and six assists for Milwaukee. Giannis Antetokounmpo had 23 points and 14 rebounds, and Ersan Ilyasova added 20 points and 13 boards, but both fouled out in the third overtime.

Ilyasova's sixth came while trying to stop what became Lopez's dunk over him, and Lopez followed the three-point play with another basket for a 122-117 lead. Milwaukee nearly tied it again, but Middleton's 3-point attempt spun out in the closing seconds and Johnson's free throw made it 129-125 with 8.1 seconds to play.