There were plenty of interesting -- to use Carmelo Anthony’s words -- sights last night when the Nets scored a 16-point victory over the Nuggets.

Far and away, the two best were the Barclays Center poster boards laid out in the hallway on the way to the locker rooms, and the dining room scene where Nets executives and Nuggets executives were a couple of tables apart and facing each other. The difference was that Nets general manager Billy King and assistant GM Bobby Marks looked comfortable, and Nuggets owner Josh Kroenke and GM Masai Ujiri didn't.

But it drew a good laugh from here because of all that has gone on and been written and said about the trade talks and negotiations, and ultimately because of Mikhail Prokhorov pulling the Nets back from the trade talks.

The Barclays Center display drew laughs because, despite the fact that the Nets had already played 22 games in Newark, the posters just happened to be laid out last night for Anthony to see. It showed where the new arena is in its construction and what it will look like from the inside and outside when completed. The fourth board simply said, “Opening in Brooklyn 2012.”

“That was interesting,” Anthony said as he laughed. “That was interesting.”

The whole night was interesting, from the reception Anthony received to how he was booed when he touched the ball to how much pleasure he took scoring amidst the boos. But the Nets took the most pleasure by beating Anthony and continuing their run of good play at home.

There is no denying the Nets are a much different team at home than anywhere else. You should be a good home team, but the drop off on the road shouldn’t be as extreme. The Nets have lost 11 straight away games and 21 of their last 22. At home, they have won three straight and five of six. That makes it good for the Nets that the next game, Wednesday night, is at the Rock. But the opponent could be a problem.

The Sixers give the Nets trouble. New Jersey hasn't been able to beat the 76ers in the last six meetings between the two teams, and often the Nets come out flat or go through lulls where energy is nowhere to be found.

The Nets are going to have to generate that energy themselves because the Sixers are a tough draw and won’t bring the fans and the atmosphere Anthony did. With the weather being what it is, there may not be a large crowd anyway.

None of that should matter to the Nets, who should be playing every game like it’s against Anthony or the Mavericks or the Lakers.

Of course, the players had extra juice for the Anthony game since nearly the entire team was involved in the now-off trade talks. It’s human nature. But when you’re 15-34, there can’t be nights off. You have to come ready to play every night, with that “chip on your shoulder,” that Avery Johnson keeps talking about.

It will be a different scene tomorrow, and it will be interesting to see how the players respond, whether there is an emotional letdown. It also will be interesting to see whether the Barclays Center boards still will be up in the hallway. The guess here is that they will because of all the publicity received. The Nets love publicity, and they’re going to want to make it seem like they just put them out because they just came in and not because Melo was in town. Yeah, right.

But things also will be different because of the different history between the team executives. The Sixers’ bosses, Rod Thorn and Ed Stefanski, used to be the Nets’ bosses. They probably will engage in conversations and laugh with King and Marks. They may even sit together, comfortably.

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The Nets announced the signing of Orien Greene to a 10-day contract. Greene was playing for the Utah Flash of the NBA Development League.

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Al Iannazzone covers the Nets for The Record (Bergen County, N.J.)