{"id":641003,"date":"2026-03-05T13:39:18","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T13:39:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/641003\/"},"modified":"2026-03-05T13:39:18","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T13:39:18","slug":"nolan-traores-growth-as-nets-point-guard-has-nba-taking-notice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/641003\/","title":{"rendered":"Nolan Traore&#8217;s growth as Nets point guard has NBA taking notice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In December, none of the Nets\u2019 five rookies had played less than Nolan Traor\u00e9. Or worse.<\/p>\n<p>But over the past month, none of them have played more than the 19-year-old point guard. Or better.<\/p>\n<p>Growth in the NBA isn\u2019t always linear or steady, but Traor\u00e9\u2019s has been as fast as his blistering first step. After looking lost earlier in the season, the young Frenchman now is drawing praise from the best player his country has ever produced and compliments from the best point guard the Nets have ever had.<\/p>\n<p>While the Nets will drag <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/03\/01\/sports\/ex-coach-kenny-atkinson-confident-nets-rebuild-will-pay-off-as-losses-mount\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a league-worst eight-game losing skid<\/a> into Miami on Tuesday, Traor\u00e9 is on an uptick. He is averaging 13.7 points, 5.7 assists and 1.5 steals over his past 11 outings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In December, none of the Nets\u2019 five rookies had played less than Nolan Traor\u00e9. Or worse. But over&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":641004,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3767],"tags":[7,670,247,3803,3822,3716,248,6,671,3823,66,196,693],"class_list":["post-641003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn-nets","tag-basketball","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-nets","tag-brooklynnets","tag-inside-the-nets","tag-jason-kidd","tag-jordi-fernandez","tag-nba","tag-nets","tag-post-sports-newsletters","tag-sports","tag-sports-plus","tag-victor-wembanyama"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116176851103165763","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641003","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=641003"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641003\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/641004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=641003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=641003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=641003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}