{"id":388289,"date":"2026-01-03T04:44:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T04:44:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/388289\/"},"modified":"2026-01-03T04:44:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T04:44:07","slug":"wizards-119-99-nets-3-jan-2026-game-recap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/388289\/","title":{"rendered":"Wizards 119-99 Nets (3 Jan, 2026) Game Recap"},"content":{"rendered":"

WASHINGTON — \u2014 Justin Champagnie<\/a> scored a season-high 20 points and the Washington Wizards<\/a> continued their recent improvement with a 119-99 victory over the Brooklyn Nets<\/a> on Friday night.<\/p>\n

Alex Sarr<\/a> added 19 points and CJ McCollum<\/a> scored 17 for the Wizards, who still have the second-worst record in the Eastern Conference (9-23) but have won four out of five for the first time since Feb. 8-16, 2023.<\/p>\n

Washington won the rebounding battle 51-33 while holding Brooklyn to a season-low six 3-pointers in 29 attempts (20.7%).<\/p>\n

Day\u2019Ron Sharpe, Terance Mann<\/a>, Ziaire Williams<\/a> and Drake Powell<\/a> all had 14 points for Brooklyn (10-22), which has lost three straight following a three-game winning streak. <\/p>\n

Washington had a 19-2 advantage in points off turnovers before halftime, and used an 18-4 run that stretched across the first and second quarters to build its lead to 18.<\/p>\n

Champagnie\u2019s 3-pointer as the first-quarter buzzer sounded made it 37-24. Will Riley<\/a> added to the lead with a layup to open the second quarter, then fed AJ Johnson<\/a> for a 3 a couple possessions later that stretched it to 44-26.<\/p>\n

Brooklyn got within nine later in the second and third quarters before Washington stretched its lead to 23 by the end of the third and 28 early in the fourth.<\/p>\n

Up next <\/p>\n

Nets: Start a three-game homestand Sunday against Denver.<\/p>\n

Wizards: Play their second of three at home Sunday against Minnesota.<\/p>\n

——<\/p>\n

AP NBA: https:\/\/apnews.com\/NBA<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WASHINGTON — \u2014 Justin Champagnie scored a season-high 20 points and the Washington Wizards continued their recent improvement…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":388290,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,590,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-388289","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\/388289","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=388289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388289\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/388290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=388289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=388289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=388289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}