{"id":358569,"date":"2025-12-19T16:00:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T16:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/358569\/"},"modified":"2025-12-19T16:00:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T16:00:11","slug":"hawks-jalen-johnson-shines-in-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/358569\/","title":{"rendered":"Hawks&#8217; Jalen Johnson: Shines in loss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"VideoPlayer-backgroundImage\" alt=\"default-cbs-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1766160010_149_video-slate.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                            <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/nba\/teams\/ATL\/atlanta-hawks\/\" aria-label=\"home team page\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>    <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"TeamLogo-image\" alt=\"team logo\" src=\"https:\/\/sports.cbsimg.net\/fly\/images\/team-logos\/333.svg\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><br \/>\n                                                <\/a><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"Annotation-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/nba\/players\/3178366\/johnson\/fantasy\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Johnson<\/a> racked up 43 points (16-27 FG, 4-9 3Pt, 7-7 FT), 11 rebounds, nine assists, one block and one steal over 39 minutes during Thursday&#8217;s 133-126 loss to the Hornets.<\/p>\n<p>Johnson dominated across the board and fell one assist shy of a triple-double. He led the <a class=\"Annotation-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/nba\/teams\/ATL\/atlanta-hawks\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Hawks<\/a> in points, rebounds and assists in his best scoring performance of the 2025-26 campaign thus far. Johnson seemed to benefit from the return of Trae Young, which is great news for fantasy managers as Young ramps back up to a full workload.<\/p>\n<p>        More News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Johnson racked up 43 points (16-27 FG, 4-9 3Pt, 7-7 FT), 11 rebounds, nine assists, one block and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":325730,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[7218,64,63,726,91191,12836,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-358569","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-basketball","8":"tag-atlanta-hawks","9":"tag-au","10":"tag-australia","11":"tag-basketball","12":"tag-fantasy-basketball","13":"tag-jalen-johnson","14":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358569","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=358569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358569\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/325730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=358569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=358569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=358569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}