{"id":208388,"date":"2025-10-12T18:11:06","date_gmt":"2025-10-12T18:11:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/208388\/"},"modified":"2025-10-12T18:11:06","modified_gmt":"2025-10-12T18:11:06","slug":"israeli-nba-rookies-saraf-and-wolf-shine-as-brooklyn-beats-phoenix-in-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/208388\/","title":{"rendered":"Israeli NBA rookies Saraf and Wolf shine as Brooklyn beats Phoenix in China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a id=\"SkQRlFAiDYTge\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ynetnews.com\/topics\/Brooklyn_Nets\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">The Brooklyn Nets<\/a> faced the Phoenix Suns in China on Sunday for the second time in three days, and after losing in overtime on Friday, this time they came out on top with a 111\u2013109 victory.Brooklyn\u2019s two Israeli rookies, <a id=\"rk4RxKRiDK6lx\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ynetnews.com\/topics\/Ben_Saraf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Ben Saraf<\/a> and <a id=\"BJBCxtAivY6gl\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ynetnews.com\/topics\/Danny_Wolf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Danny Wolf<\/a>, delivered strong performances in their third preseason game.<\/p>\n<p>Saraf played 22 minutes \u2014 the most among Brooklyn\u2019s four active rookies (with No. 8 draft pick Igor Demion sidelined by injury) \u2014 and led the team in assists with 11, along with three turnovers. The point guard also scored 4 points on 2-of-5 shooting and grabbed 4 rebounds, all on the offensive end.<\/p>\n<p>Wolf logged only 12 minutes but made the most of them, contributing 9 points on 3-of-4 shooting, including a perfect 2-of-2 from three-point range. He shined in the fourth quarter, when Brooklyn erased a seven-point deficit, hitting a clutch three-pointer that put the Nets ahead with 1:36 remaining. The big man also handed out 4 assists and finished with a +9 plus\/minus rating.<\/p>\n<p>Cam Thomas led Brooklyn in scoring with 16 points, while Michael Porter Jr. and Ziaire Williams each added 15. Devin Booker paced Phoenix with 18 points.<\/p>\n<p>Brooklyn will face Toronto late Friday night (2 a.m. Israel time) in its final preseason game before opening the NBA regular season five days later on the road against Charlotte.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Brooklyn Nets faced the Phoenix Suns in China on Sunday for the second time in three days,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":208389,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,590,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-208388","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-nba","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208388\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/208389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}