The Nets entered play in their worst funk of the season.

Luckily for Brooklyn, it found an opponent mired in the worst funk in the NBA in a decade.

With a 126-115 win in front of a sell-out crowd of 17,732 at Barclays Center on Saturday, the Nets snapped a five-game skid and handed the pathetic Pistons their 26th consecutive loss — equaling the most in a single season in the history of the league.

They now share the ugly record with the 2010-11 Cavaliers and the 2013-14 76ers.

The Nets’ first win since Dec. 13 in Phoenix probably should come with an asterisk, and old friends Bojan Bogdanovic and Joe Harris could not help their Pistons put up too much of a fight.

Brooklyn can push the Pistons into uncharted territory Tuesday, when the teams match up again for the Detroit half of the home-and-home series.

It was not the continuation of a historic streak that the Nets celebrated, though.

It was the end of their own.

“Playing a desperate team — desperate to get a win, and the whole world knows their losing streak and everything,” said Mikal Bridges, who broke out of a slump with 29 points on just 17 shots with six rebounds and seven assists. “We’re desperate too.”

The Nets (14-15) built a 13-point lead in the first half largely on the back of Bridges, who scored in just about every way, including circling his way into the lane, out of the lane and back into the lane for his last bucket of the half.

But the nerves of potentially falling to a team that has not won in nearly two months might have crept in during the third quarter, when Detroit strung together a 12-4 run to turn a 10-point deficit into a two-point Nets lead.

After Jaden Ivey’s difficult transition layup at 6:58 of the quarter, the crowd first groaned and then quieted.

“You gotta be able to weather those storms and be able to fight back,” said Cam Johnson, who ended the Pistons’ run by scooping in a layup then dishing to Nic Claxton for a dunk. “The bench came in and did a fantastic job of giving that buffer.”

The starting group halted the Pistons, and mostly the second group carried the momentum. Spencer Dinwiddie knocked down a triple. Day’Ron Sharpe hit a hook shot.

The Nets reeled off a 21-7 spurt to end the third quarter, the crowd not just exhaling but exploding when Royce O’Neale hit Dorian Finney-Smith with a touchdown pass that led to a fast-break dunk late in the quarter.

The Nets led by as many as 21, and the Pistons never drew closer than 10 points away in the final quarter.

“That was both units,” head coach Jacque Vaughn said of the game-changing run. “Both units got a little piece of that effort as well. So when we’re healthy, [we are] able to depend on more bodies to do good things for us.”

Bridges was the catalyst, but he had plenty of company on a night the Nets put a season-high-tying seven into double-figures, including the entire starting five.

Finney-Smith and Sharpe combined to go 9-for-12 for 21 points off the bench, both contributing valuable minutes that helped allow Vaughn to empty the bench late.

The Nets’ victory was thorough — out-shooting, out-rebounding, out-assisting, out-stealing and outplaying Detroit, which was led by Ivey’s 23 points and Cade Cunningham’s 22.

If Bridges wasn’t answering runs, it was Cam Thomas (20 points), who also notched his second four-point play in as many nights, or Johnson (18 points on 6-for-10 shooting).

Even on the second half of a back-to-back after falling to the Nuggets on Friday, the Nets looked like the team with more energy.

The Pistons’ (2-27) skid is tied for the longest in league history but has a bit further to go when including years bridged together.

The longest losing streak over multiple seasons is held by the 76ers, who lost 28 straight from the 2014-15 season to the 2015-16 campaign.

“We needed that,” Bridges said, “we had a streak of our own going.”