{"id":450025,"date":"2026-01-31T18:19:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-31T18:19:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/450025\/"},"modified":"2026-01-31T18:19:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-31T18:19:08","slug":"nets-guard-egor-demin-sets-nba-rookie-record-with-3-pointer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/450025\/","title":{"rendered":"Nets guard Egor Demin sets NBA rookie record with 3-pointer"},"content":{"rendered":"

Brooklyn Nets<\/a> guard Egor Demin<\/a> made a 3-pointer in an NBA rookie-record 34th straight game during Friday night’s 106-99 win<\/a> against the Utah Jazz<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Demin set the record on the first basket for the Nets. He finished with a team-best 25 points and was 6-for-12 from 3-point range, making three in the fourth quarter to help the Nets pull away late.<\/p>\n

“There’s a reason why we drafted him,” Brooklyn coach Jordi Fernandez said. “We believed that [his] shooting was NBA shooting, and he’s proven it from the beginning.”<\/p>\n

Demin entered Friday’s win tied with Portland<\/a>‘s Rudy Fernandez<\/a> (2008-09) and Philadelphia<\/a>‘s Landry Shamet<\/a> (2018-19).<\/p>\n

“You see the confidence growing on him,” Nets center Day’ron Sharpe<\/a> said. “Who knows what Egor can be in the next couple of years?”<\/p>\n

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Drafted eighth overall out of BYU<\/a> last year, Demin said extra hours spent on refining his shooting helped him become a reliable perimeter threat.<\/p>\n

He has made 104 3-pointers this season, ranking second behind Charlotte<\/a>‘s Kon Knueppel<\/a> (161) among NBA rookies. Demin made the second-most 3s through 40 career games in NBA history, trailing only Knueppel, and has shot 40.2% from long distance this season.<\/p>\n

The milestone represents a major leap forward from Demin’s one season at BYU, where he shot 27.3% from the perimeter. While Demin struggled to find his shot at times in Provo, he credited Cougars coach Kevin Young with helping him find success as a rookie.<\/p>\n

“He’s an NBA coach, so he taught me — in this one year — basically whatever I have to know to be able to play at the NBA level,” Demin said. “He gave us a lot of knowledge so that I come here and I’m ready to play and I know what we’re doing and I have an idea of what it is. He gave me this base of an NBA player to be able to come here and know what’s going on around me.”<\/p>\n

Demin has another record within reach. He has made the second-most 3s for a rookie in Nets’ history, trailing only Kerry Kittles’ 158 3-pointers in the 1996-97 season. This season, Demin has set Nets rookie records for the most 3-pointers in a game (7) and most games with five or more 3s (7).<\/p>\n

The Associated Press contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Brooklyn Nets guard Egor Demin made a 3-pointer in an NBA rookie-record 34th straight game during Friday night’s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":450026,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":["post-450025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basketball","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-basketball","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450025","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=450025"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450025\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/450026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=450025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=450025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=450025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}