{"id":237605,"date":"2026-03-26T14:34:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T14:34:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/237605\/"},"modified":"2026-03-26T14:34:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T14:34:09","slug":"warriors-defeat-nets-clinch-spot-in-play-in-tournament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/237605\/","title":{"rendered":"Warriors defeat Nets, clinch spot in play-in tournament"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gui Santos scored a career-high 31 points, Draymond Green made two clutch free throws with 6.9 seconds remaining and the Golden State Warriors beat the Brooklyn Nets 109-106 on Wednesday to clinch a play-in spot.<\/p>\n<p>Brandin Podziemski had 22 points, six rebounds and five assists for the Warriors (35-38), who won their first game at Chase Center since returning from a grueling 2-4 road trip.<\/p>\n<p>Kristaps Porzingis added 17 points and De&#8217;Anthony Melton had 14, including a pair of free throws in the final seconds, as Golden State beat Brooklyn in San Francisco for the first time since Dec. 16, 2023.<\/p>\n<p>Ziaire Williams had 19 points for the Nets, who have lost nine straight. Jalen Wilson added 15 points off the bench while Ben Saraf had 14 points and seven rebounds.<\/p>\n<p>The sellout at Chase Center was the 600th consecutive sellout for the Warriors, the sixth-longest streak in NBA history,<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/warriors-nets-2268389079.jpg#.jpeg\" alt=\"warriors-nets-2268389079.jpg \" height=\"349\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  Gui Santos #15 of the Golden State Warriors looks for an opening against Jalen Wilson #22 of the Brooklyn Nets during the second half at Chase Center on March 25, 2026 in San Francisco.<\/p>\n<p>                Kelley L Cox\/Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>The Nets led most of the game, trailed going into the fourth then wore down over the final 12 minutes. Brooklyn shot 8 for 20 (2 for 9 behind the arc) down the stretch.<\/p>\n<p>Still without injured star Stephen Curry, the Warriors committed 15 turnovers in the first two quarters and had trouble running their offense with much consistency.<\/p>\n<p>The Nets also got off to a sluggish start and missed 10 of their first 15 shots before Williams warmed up. The former first-round draft pick repeatedly attacked through the paint and scored 11 points to help Brooklyn to a 58-50 halftime lead.<\/p>\n<p>Golden State pulled within 63-62 midway through the third before Powell made consecutive 3-pointers to get Brooklyn on track..<\/p>\n<p>Up next:<\/p>\n<p>Nets: Face the Lakers in Los Angeles on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Warriors: Host the Wizards on Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gui Santos scored a career-high 31 points, Draymond Green made two clutch free throws with 6.9 seconds remaining&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":237606,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[2454,74150,14844,7000,129,30374,101,103,102,104,106,105,127,14843],"class_list":["post-237605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-francisco","tag-basketball","tag-brooklyn-nets","tag-draymond-green","tag-golden-state-warriors","tag-nba","tag-nba-playoffs","tag-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco-headlines","tag-san-francisco-news","tag-sf","tag-sf-headlines","tag-sf-news","tag-sports","tag-stephen-curry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237605","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=237605"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237605\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/237606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}