"The Nets came here with a losing streak. Well, at least they had their health. But actually, they didn't even have that.

Terrence Williams was out a second straight game with a lower abdominal strain and Troy Murphy was back on the shelf with a sore right foot. Murphy had missed the first three games of the season with a sore lower back.

Williams, who sat Tuesday's game from the injury suffered Monday in practice, had felt he would play last night.

"I don't want to re-injure it," Williams said before the Nets snapped their five-game losing skid with a 95-87 victory over the Cavaliers. "It's only been a couple days, and I haven't tried anything full speed,"

Murphy went for X-rays before the game and said afterward that he hadn't gotten the results, and he doesn't know how the ailment began.

"I have no idea," said Murphy, who had 11 rebounds in Tuesday's 93-91 loss to Cleveland. "It's been sore the last few days, and it was getting increasingly more so.""