{"id":704416,"date":"2026-04-08T02:38:32","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T02:38:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/704416\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T02:38:32","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T02:38:32","slug":"ej-liddell-scores-a-career-high-21-points-to-lead-brooklyn-nets-over-milwaukee-bucks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/704416\/","title":{"rendered":"EJ Liddell scores a career-high 21 points to lead Brooklyn Nets over Milwaukee Bucks"},"content":{"rendered":"

NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 E.J. Liddell<\/a> scored a career-high 21 points to lead the Brooklyn Nets<\/a> to a 96-90 victory over the Milwaukee Bucks<\/a> on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n

Ben Saraf<\/a> added 19, while Drake Powell<\/a> and Malachi Smith<\/a> each had 11 for the Nets (20-59), who have won two straight and three of their last five. <\/p>\n

AJ Green<\/a> scored 20 points for Milwaukee, which dropped to 31-48. Taurean Prince<\/a> added 16 points, Cormac Ryan<\/a> chipped in with 14 and Jericho Sims<\/a> had 12.<\/p>\n

Five years after the Bucks edged the Nets in Game 7 of a thrilling second-round series on their way to the NBA championship, both teams are out of the playoff race and Milwaukee\u2019s Doc Rivers indicated before the game he might not coach much longer. <\/p>\n

Liddell, who came off a 15-point, five rebound, two blocked shots effort in Brooklyn\u2019s 121-115 win over Washington on Sunday, scored 17 points in the first half. But he was the only Nets player to score in double figures in the opening 24 minutes and Brooklyn only led 49-43 at halftime. <\/p>\n

The game remained close throughout the third quarter, with the Nets holding a 70-62 advantage.<\/p>\n

Brooklyn extended its lead to 83-72 in the first five minutes of the fourth. Saraf converted a one-legged fadeaway and had a breakaway dunk in consecutive possessions. <\/p>\n

Milwaukee cut the deficit to 88-87 on Prince\u2019s corner 3 with 2:28 left. But that was as close as the Bucks would come. <\/p>\n

Up next<\/p>\n

Bucks: Visit Central Division rival Detroit Wednesday. <\/p>\n

Nets: Conclude the home portion of their 2025-26 season against Indiana on Thursday. <\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

AP NBA: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/nba<\/p>\n

Denis P. Gorman, The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 E.J. Liddell scored a career-high 21 points to lead the Brooklyn Nets to a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":704417,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3767],"tags":[7,670,247,3803,6,671,66],"class_list":{"0":"post-704416","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brooklyn-nets","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-brooklyn","10":"tag-brooklyn-nets","11":"tag-brooklynnets","12":"tag-nba","13":"tag-nets","14":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116366771062765773","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/704416","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=704416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/704416\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/704417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=704416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=704416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=704416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}