{"id":699143,"date":"2026-04-05T05:40:34","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T05:40:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/699143\/"},"modified":"2026-04-05T05:40:34","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T05:40:34","slug":"preview-wizards-visit-nets-on-sunday-afternoon-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/699143\/","title":{"rendered":"Preview: Wizards visit Nets on Sunday afternoon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This Sunday matinee, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sbnation.com\/nba\/teams\/washington-wizards\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Washington Wizards;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Washington Wizards&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Washington Wizards<\/a> visit the Big Apple and play the Brooklyn Nets on the second afternoon of a back-to-back East Coast road trip.<\/p>\n<p>Game Info<\/p>\n<p>When: Sunday, April 5 at 3:30 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Where:  Barclays Center, New York City<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>How to watch: Monumental Sports Network<\/p>\n<p>How to listen: The Team 980 AM, 106.7-2 FM.<\/p>\n<p>Wizards: Tristan Vukcevic, Tre Johnson (Day-to-Day), Trae Young, Alex Sarr, Kyshawn George, Anthony Davis, D\u2019Angelo Russell, Cam Whitmore (Out)<\/p>\n<p>Nets: Terance Mann, Noah Clowney (Day-To-Day), Nic Claxton, Ziaire Williams, Michael Porter Jr., Danny Wolf, Egor Demin, Day\u2019Ron Sharpe<\/p>\n<p>A lot of injuries \u2014 The Wizards and the Nets are tanking right now, and so the combined injured list is close to half of their rosters. So, for all intents and purposes, this game is essentially a G-League matchup.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Defense \u2014 The Wizards\u2019 defense as of late has been lamentable. They allowed 153 against the Philadelphia 76ers a couple nights back, and just today conceded 152 to the Heat in Miami. Can they start keeping teams below 150? Probably doable against the very depleted Nets. But who knows?<\/p>\n<p>Flashback: Wizards defeat Nets with Russell Westbrook\u2019s clutch three!<\/p>\n<p>The last time a first-ballot future Hall of Famer played for Washington was the lone season of Russell Westbrook in D.C.<\/p>\n<p>A Vintage Russ highlight (with two spectacular threes by him and Beal):<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This Sunday matinee, the Washington Wizards visit the Big Apple and play the Brooklyn Nets on the second&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":699144,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3780],"tags":[979,495,7,6290,247,4836,1042,227,568,3531,6333,295,562,6,66128,1136,2728,3805,1100,207,254,7290,494,952,682,468,3892,683,4610],"class_list":{"0":"post-699143","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-washington-wizards","8":"tag-alex-sarr","9":"tag-anthony-davis","10":"tag-basketball","11":"tag-beal","12":"tag-brooklyn-nets","13":"tag-cam-whitmore","14":"tag-danny-wolf","15":"tag-egor-demin","16":"tag-getty-images","17":"tag-jamir-watkins","18":"tag-kyshawn-george","19":"tag-miami","20":"tag-michael-porter-jr","21":"tag-nba","22":"tag-nbae","23":"tag-new-york","24":"tag-nic-claxton","25":"tag-noah-clowney","26":"tag-ny","27":"tag-philadelphia-76ers","28":"tag-russell-westbrook","29":"tag-terance-mann","30":"tag-trae-young","31":"tag-tre-johnson","32":"tag-washington","33":"tag-washington-wizards","34":"tag-washingtonwizards","35":"tag-wizards","36":"tag-ziaire-williams"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116350503360850336","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699143","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=699143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699143\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/699144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=699143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=699143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=699143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}