{"id":221046,"date":"2025-10-18T00:57:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-18T00:57:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/221046\/"},"modified":"2025-10-18T00:57:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-18T00:57:09","slug":"egor-demin-tells-the-post-how-hes-dealing-with-nets-expectations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/221046\/","title":{"rendered":"Egor Demin tells The Post how he&#8217;s dealing with Nets expectations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TORONTO \u2014 After being sidelined since the end of summer league \u2014 missing training camp and most of the preseason with a foot injury \u2014 Nets rookie Egor D\u00ebmin <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/10\/16\/sports\/egor-demin-set-for-nets-preseason-debut-with-competition-in-full-swing\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">finally got to make his delayed debut <\/a>Friday against the Raptors.<\/p>\n<p>But even as teammates gushed over the lottery pick \u2014 predicting he\u2019s going to be a \u201cproblem\u201d \u2014 both D\u00ebmin and the staff are trying to avoid heaping too much pressure on the teenager.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou know there\u2019s going to be a moment of just getting back to the rhythm,\u201d D\u00ebmin told The Post. \u201cObviously, four practices back is not the same as the rest of the group that was practicing for two months straight.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m approaching it in a way of learning and getting back to condition and just getting back to the group, trying to understand who is who and why we\u2019re doing it in general. So for me, I\u2019m not trying [to press]. I\u2019m going to try to play my best, but I\u2019m not trying to save the world. I\u2019m trying to really get back to the rhythm.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TORONTO \u2014 After being sidelined since the end of summer league \u2014 missing training camp and most of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":221047,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[6996,49,48,13155,282,459,82,2089],"class_list":{"0":"post-221046","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-brooklyn-nets","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-egor-demin","12":"tag-exclusive","13":"tag-nba","14":"tag-sports","15":"tag-sports-plus"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221046","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=221046"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221046\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/221047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}