EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. (AP) – Jason Kidd had 23 points and 12 rebounds to lead the New Jersey Nets past Detroit 91-84 Tuesday night, snapping the Pistons’ NBA-best 11-game winning streak.

Richard Jefferson and Nenad Krstic each scored 19 for New Jersey (23-20), which snapped a four-game losing streak. The Nets won their eighth straight game at Continental Airlines Arena.

Chauncey Billups led Detroit (37-6) with 30 points, including 6-for-6 from 3-point range. The Pistons, who entered the game shooting 46 percent from the field this season, were 30-of-82 (37 percent). Leading scorer Richard Hamilton scored 19 points, three below his average, but shot 8-for-24 from the field.

New Jersey led 85-81 with 2:00 left after Kidd found Vince Carter for an acrobatic alley-oop dunk. Billups answered with a 3-pointer from the top of the key to pull Detroit within a point, and Krstic fumbled a pass out of bounds at the other end for New Jersey.

But Tayshaun Prince committed an offensive foul on Detroit’s next possession, and Kidd made a 3-pointer with 48 seconds left to give the Nets an 88-84 lead.

On Detroit’s next possession, Carter stripped Hamilton on a drive to the basket, and Kidd made two free throws with 36 seconds left.

Detroit trailed by as many as 10 points midway through the third quarter as Kidd sank a 3-pointer and two jumpers sandwiched around a jumper by Jason Collins, his only points of the night.

New Jersey failed to score for the final two minutes of the third but still finished the period with a 67-62 lead as the Pistons shot 7-for-19. Hamilton heated up after a cold (3-for-12) first half with three early baskets but the Pistons went four minutes between field goals before Hamilton closed the quarter with a baseline jumper off an inbounds pass with 1.5 seconds left.

After allowing Seattle, Portland and the Los Angeles Clippers to shoot at or near 50 percent from the field in their last three losses, the Nets tightened up on defense and held the Pistons to 37 percent shooting (16-for-43) in the first half.

Neither team led by more than six points in a closely played first 24 minutes. Detroit held a 40-36 advantage after Billups’ technical foul shot after the Nets were whistled for defensive three seconds. New Jersey then scored 10 of the last 12 points of the half, six by Jefferson – including a fast-break dunk on which he switched hands and threw it down lefthanded – and four by Krstic.

Notes: Detroit began the evening as one of two Eastern Conference teams with a winning record at home and on the road. Miami was the other. San Antonio, Dallas and Phoenix own the distinction in the West … With a win, Detroit would have come within a victory of matching the franchise-record 13-game streak set in 1989-90 and equaled in 2003-2004. The Pistons also would have finished 14-1 in January, their best record ever for that month … F/G Antoine Wright, the Nets’ first-round draft pick who had played in just nine games this season, was on the court for just under seven minutes in the first half, scoring two points and pulling down one rebound.

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