{"id":618177,"date":"2026-02-22T17:24:24","date_gmt":"2026-02-22T17:24:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/618177\/"},"modified":"2026-02-22T17:24:24","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T17:24:24","slug":"brooklyn-forward-sidelined-for-second-straight-game-due-to-personal-reasons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/618177\/","title":{"rendered":"Brooklyn forward sidelined for second straight game due to personal reasons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ziaire Williams will miss his second consecutive game for the <a href=\"https:\/\/clutchpoints.com\/nba\/brooklyn-nets\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Brooklyn Nets<\/a> on Sunday. Brooklyn ruled Williams out for its matchup with the <a href=\"https:\/\/clutchpoints.com\/nba\/atlanta-hawks\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Atlanta Hawks<\/a> due to personal reasons.<\/p>\n<p>Williams played 22 minutes during Thursday&#8217;s 112-84 loss to the Cleveland Cavaliers. However, the Nets ruled him out for Friday&#8217;s 105-86 loss to the Oklahoma City Thunder due to personal reasons.<\/p>\n<p>Williams has played a featured role with Brooklyn&#8217;s second unit this season. He&#8217;s logged the seventh-most minutes on the team, averaging 9.5 points, 2.6 rebounds and 1.2 steals per game on .407\/.313\/.859 shooting splits across 39 appearances.<\/p>\n<p>Ziaire Williams remains sidelined for Nets vs. Hawks due to personal reasons<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3611344\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/1764175515_Ziaire-Williams.jpg\" alt=\"Brooklyn Nets forward Ziaire Williams (1) at Madison Square Garden.\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\"  \/>Wendell Cruz-Imagn Images<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/clutchpoints.com\/nba\/brooklyn-nets\/nets-news-brooklyn-trade-acquisition-turns-in-season-best-performance\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ochai Agbaji has seen extended minutes in the Nets&#8217; second unit<\/a> over the last two games during Williams&#8217; absence. The trade deadline acquisition recorded his best performance of the season on Thursday vs. the Cavs. He posted 13 points, three rebounds, three assists and a block on 5-of-8 shooting from the field and 3-of-6 from three in 28 minutes.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/clutchpoints.com\/nba\/brooklyn-nets\/nets-nic-claxton-returning-from-two-game-absence\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nic Claxton will return from a two-game absence vs. Atlanta<\/a> due to an ankle injury. The Hawks, who have dropped four of their last five games, <a href=\"https:\/\/clutchpoints.com\/nba\/atlanta-hawks\/hawks-news-jonathan-kuminga-miss-at-least-1-more-week-warriors-trade\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">will be without Jonathan Kuminga due to a knee injury<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Nets have moved into third place in the draft lottery standings following three straight losses. They&#8217;re tied in the win column and two back in the loss column of the Indiana Pacers for second.<\/p>\n<p>Brooklyn <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nba.com\/nets\/schedule\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">will return home for matchups<\/a> with the Dallas Mavericks and San Antonio Spurs on Tuesday and Thursday, respectively, following Sunday&#8217;s game against the Hawks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ziaire Williams will miss his second consecutive game for the Brooklyn Nets on Sunday. Brooklyn ruled Williams out&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":370753,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3767],"tags":[208,7,670,247,3803,6,14502,671,2144],"class_list":{"0":"post-618177","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brooklyn-nets","8":"tag-atlanta-hawks","9":"tag-basketball","10":"tag-brooklyn","11":"tag-brooklyn-nets","12":"tag-brooklynnets","13":"tag-nba","14":"tag-nba-injury","15":"tag-nets","16":"tag-reporting"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116115451118473552","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618177","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=618177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618177\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/370753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=618177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=618177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=618177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}