Ochai Agbaji and rookie Drake Powell combined 17 points in the fourth quarter as the Brooklyn Nets stopped a 10-game losing streak by leading most of the way in a 116-99 victory over the Sacramento Kings on Sunday night in New York.<\/p>\n
The Nets (18-57) allowed the game\u2019s first basket and never trailed again, taking a 27-point lead midway through the second quarter before getting their first win since March 9.<\/p>\n
Agbaji led the Nets with 18 points on 6-of-11 shooting while Powell finished with 16 on 6-of-8 shooting.<\/p>\n
Rookie Nolan Traore added 17 and six assists and Noah Clowney contributed 15 as the Nets shot 49.4% and made 17 3s on 41 attempts, sealing just their third win in their past 23 games.<\/p>\n
The Kings (19-57) took their 11th straight road loss to an Eastern Conference team and used their 34th starting lineup while having nine available players.<\/p>\n
DeMar DeRozan (right hamstring soreness) missed his second game of the season and the Kings were also without Malik Monk (bruised shoulder).<\/p>\n
Devin Carter led the Kings with 11 of his 20 points in the fourth and shot 6-of-12. Rookie Nique Clifford contributed 17 and seven rebounds while Precious Achiuwa chipped 16 and eight boards.<\/p>\n
DaQuan Jeffries finished with 14, Maxime Raynaud had 13 and Doug McDermott chipped in 12 for the Kings.<\/p>\n
The Kings shot 42.9%, were 10 of 32 from 3 and committed 23 fouls a week after earning a four-point home win over Brooklyn.<\/p>\n
The Nets took control from the outset. They held a 31-18 lead through the opening quarter and took a 43-20 lead on an open 3 by Clowney at the top of the key a little more than three minutes into the second. Clowney\u2019s triple was part of a 14-0 run, and the Nets held a 68-45 lead by halftime.<\/p>\n
Brooklyn scored 18 points in the third when it committed 10 turnovers and settled for an 86-73 lead into the fourth. Clifford\u2019s 3 sliced the lead to 92-83 with 9:49 left before the Nets finished things by scoring the next 13 points. Powell capped the run with a 3 at the 5:41 mark.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ochai Agbaji and rookie Drake Powell combined 17 points in the fourth quarter as the Brooklyn Nets stopped…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":687146,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3792],"tags":[7,4056,6,986,477,4055],"class_list":{"0":"post-687145","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sacramento-kings","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-kings","10":"tag-nba","11":"tag-sacramento","12":"tag-sacramento-kings","13":"tag-sacramentokings"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116315617412805364","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687145","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=687145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687145\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/687146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=687145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=687145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=687145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}