{"id":567798,"date":"2026-01-29T04:47:17","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T04:47:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/567798\/"},"modified":"2026-01-29T04:47:17","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T04:47:17","slug":"brooklyn-resting-several-players-vs-nuggets-amid-six-game-losing-streak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/567798\/","title":{"rendered":"Brooklyn resting several players vs. Nuggets amid six-game losing streak"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/clutchpoints.com\/nba\/brooklyn-nets\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Brooklyn Nets<\/a> will be shorthanded on Thursday against the <a href=\"https:\/\/clutchpoints.com\/nba\/denver-nuggets\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Denver Nuggets<\/a> as they attempt to snap a six-game losing streak. On the front end of a back-to-back, the Nets are resting <a href=\"https:\/\/clutchpoints.com\/tag\/egor-demin\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Egor Demin<\/a> (left plantar fascia), Noah Clowney (lower back) and <a href=\"https:\/\/clutchpoints.com\/nba\/players\/ae25093e\/cam-thomas\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cam Thomas<\/a> (hamstring) for injury management. Ziaire Williams will also miss the game due to a left calf contusion.<\/p>\n<p>Terance Mann is questionable due to back soreness.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/clutchpoints.com\/nba\/brooklyn-nets\/nets-news-egor-demin-workload-plan-revealed\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Demin has sat back-to-backs for most of the season<\/a> after missing most of the offseason due to a plantar fascia tear. Thomas has not played in a back-to-back since returning from a multi-month absence due to a hamstring injury, his fourth of the last year. Meanwhile, Clowney has missed Brooklyn&#8217;s previous two games due to a lower back ailment.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/clutchpoints.com\/nba\/brooklyn-nets\/nets-news-egor-demin-dillon-brooks-altercation-wild-fight-nets-suns\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Williams was injured in a scuffle<\/a> during the final minutes of Tuesday&#8217;s 106-102 loss to the Phoenix Suns.<\/p>\n<p>Nets resting Egor Demin, others vs. Nuggets despite six-game losing streak<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3682613\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Egor-Demin-2.jpg\" alt=\"Brooklyn Nets guard Egor Demin (8) shoots against Los Angeles Clippers guard Jordan Miller (22) during the second half at Intuit Dome.\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\"  \/>Gary A. Vasquez-Imagn Images<\/p>\n<p>The Nets have lost 14 of their last 16 games. They rank 29th in offense, 29th in defense and dead-last in net rating (-13.3) during that span. The cold stretch has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tankathon.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">brought them within one game<\/a> of the top spot in the draft lottery standings.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the <a href=\"https:\/\/clutchpoints.com\/nba\/denver-nuggets\/nuggets-news-nikola-jokic-injury-update-from-shams-teases-return\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nuggets have won nine of their last 11 games<\/a> despite battling a slew of injuries. Nikola Jokic (Left Knee; Bone Bruise), Aaron Gordon (Right Hamstring; Strain), Cam Johnson (Right Knee; Bone Bruise) and Christian Braun (Left Ankle; Sprain) will not play on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Jamal Murray (Right Hamstring; Inflammation\/Left Hip Inflammation) and Jonas Valanciunas (Right Calf; Strain) are probable.<\/p>\n<p>The Nets will face the Utah Jazz on Friday in a back-to-back.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Brooklyn Nets will be shorthanded on Thursday against the Denver Nuggets as they attempt to snap a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":567799,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3767],"tags":[7,670,247,3803,959,187,227,6,14502,671,2144],"class_list":{"0":"post-567798","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brooklyn-nets","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-brooklyn","10":"tag-brooklyn-nets","11":"tag-brooklynnets","12":"tag-cam-thomas","13":"tag-denver-nuggets","14":"tag-egor-demin","15":"tag-nba","16":"tag-nba-injury","17":"tag-nets","18":"tag-reporting"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/115976578866144575","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=567798"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567798\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/567799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=567798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=567798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=567798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}