{"id":662079,"date":"2026-03-17T01:37:02","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T01:37:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/662079\/"},"modified":"2026-03-17T01:37:02","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T01:37:02","slug":"portland-trail-blazers-vs-brooklyn-nets-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/662079\/","title":{"rendered":"Portland Trail Blazers vs Brooklyn Nets Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1teeyfa8 ls9zuh1\">Brooklyn played without Michael Porter Jr., Egor D\u00ebmin, <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/03\/12\/sports\/dayron-sharpe-out-for-season-with-left-thumb-injury-as-nets-fall-to-hawks\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Day\u2019Ron Sharpe<\/a> and Nic Claxton \u2014 though Claxton was merely rested. Then regulars Noah Clowney, Terance Mann and Ziaire Williams dug a 28-point hole and got benched for the entire fourth quarter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1teeyfa8 ls9zuh1\">That final period saw the Nets, utilizing two-ways and a player inked that morning on a 10-day contract, use a 31-9 extended run to flip a 21-point deficit into a lead. But it\u2019s a lead they couldn\u2019t hold, falling just short.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1teeyfa8 ls9zuh1\">Rookie Danny Wolf had 15 points and 10 rebounds, and he was the only quasi-regular to log more than three minutes in that fourth quarter. Little-used Josh Minott added 14.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1teeyfa8 ls9zuh1\">Instead, the Nets relied upon two-ways E.J. Liddell (career-high 10 points) and Chaney Johnson (career highs of six points, 10 rebounds, three steals) as well as Malachi Smith, who made his NBA debut after inking his deal that morning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Brooklyn played without Michael Porter Jr., Egor D\u00ebmin, Day\u2019Ron Sharpe and Nic Claxton \u2014 though Claxton was merely&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":662080,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3767],"tags":[7,56618,37790,670,247,3803,6,671],"class_list":{"0":"post-662079","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brooklyn-nets","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-blazers-game-previews","10":"tag-blazers-gameday-coverage","11":"tag-brooklyn","12":"tag-brooklyn-nets","13":"tag-brooklynnets","14":"tag-nba","15":"tag-nets"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662079","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=662079"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662079\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/662080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=662079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=662079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=662079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}