got Aaron Gordon and Christian Braun back<\/a> from lengthy injury absences and a huge game from Jamal Murray, but fell to 1-2 since Nikola Jokic was lost for perhaps a month with a hyperextended left knee.<\/p>\nMurray finished with 27 points, a career-high 16 assists and six rebounds. Gordon had 20 points off the bench after missing 19 games with a strained right hamstring, while Braun started and scored four points after he sat out 23 games with a sprained left ankle.<\/p>\n
Noah Clowney added 22 points for the Nets, while Cam Thomas and Day’Ron Sharpe each had 17. Sharpe started at center with Nic Claxton out for personal reasons.<\/p>\n
Porter played six seasons for the Nuggets after being taken with the No. 14 pick in the 2018 draft and was a starter on their 2023 NBA championship team. He was traded to Brooklyn in the offseason for Cam Johnson and came in averaging a career-high 25.8 points.<\/p>\n
He scored nine points in the second quarter and Brooklyn led 59-52 at halftime after Murray’s jumper with 0.2 seconds to play.<\/p>\n
The Nets quickly opened it up again in the third quarter. Brooklyn was 7 for 9 from 3-point range in the period, scoring 41 points and taking a 100-84 advantage to the fourth.<\/p>\n
Tim Hardaway Jr. had two 3-pointers to open the fourth and cut it to 10, but Thomas had the last seven points of a 12-0 spurt that blew it open at 112-90. <\/p>\n
Hardaway scored 26 but Denver fell to 1-4 on its seven-game Eastern trip. Johnson sat out with a knee injury.<\/p>\n
Nuggets: Visit Philadelphia on Monday.<\/p>\n
Nets: Host Orlando on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
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