The Brooklyn Nets are hoping to finish the 2025-26 NBA season on a strong note, but they are having a tough time winning games as evidenced by their current 10-game losing streak. Brooklyn has been dealing with some injuries along the way as they face some of the better teams in the league, but their upcoming injury report is relatively clean for another tough matchup.

The Nets announced on Friday that rookie guards Egor Demin and Drake Powell are out for Saturday’s matchup at the Detroit Pistons due to their respective reasons. For Demin, he continues to deal with a left plantar fascia injury that the team is trying to manage while Powell remains on his assignment with the Long Island Nets, Brooklyn’s G League affiliate.

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“He’s struggled with plantar fasciitis, and the soreness has increased lately. So we’re being cautious and trying to figure out what’s the best way for him moving forward,” Nets head coach Jordi Fernandez said of Demin prior to Thursday’s 126-110 loss at the Miami Heat, per Brian Lewis of the New York Post. Demin, 20, has missed Brooklyn’s past three games due to the left plantar fascia injury and it seems that Fernandez is describing the injury as fasciitis.

Demin, the eighth overall pick in the 2025 NBA Draft, is having a solid rookie season as he’s averaging 10.3 points, 3.2 rebounds, and 3.3 assists per game while shooting 39.9% from the field and 38.5% from three-point land. With Demin out of the lineup, there has been more playing time for players like backup point guard Ben Saraf and guard Terance Mann, who has been filling in for Demin as the starting shooting guard in the meantime.

Powell, 20, is getting some much-needed reps with Long Island and it seems that he’s making the most of his opportunity to experiment with his game on both ends of the floor. In Long Island’s 117-115 win over the Greensboro Swarm on Friday, Powell put up 11 points, five rebounds, and two assists alongside Two-Way forward EJ Liddell, who had 36 points and 13 rebounds in the winning effort.

This article originally appeared on Nets Wire: Nets’ Egor Demin (left plantar fascia) out Saturday at Pistons