{"id":126491,"date":"2026-02-07T23:36:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-07T23:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/126491\/"},"modified":"2026-02-07T23:36:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-07T23:36:08","slug":"brooklyn-nets-score-80-points-in-the-first-half-and-beat-the-short-handed-wizards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/126491\/","title":{"rendered":"Brooklyn Nets score 80 points in the first half and beat the short-handed Wizards"},"content":{"rendered":"

NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 Michael Porter Jr.<\/a> scored 23 points and the Brooklyn Nets<\/a> used an 80-point first half to beat the short-handed Washington Wizards<\/a> 127-113 on Saturday. <\/p>\n

With the Wizards having only eight players available, the Nets led by 34 points in the second quarter and went on to snap a three-game losing streak.<\/p>\n

Day\u2019Ron Sharpe added 19 points and Noah Clowney<\/a> had 18 for the Nets, who won for just the second time in 12 games. Rookie Danny Wolf<\/a> had 16 points, seven rebounds and six assists.<\/p>\n

Will Riley<\/a> scored a career-high 27 points for the Wizards. Justin Champagnie<\/a> added 21 points and nine rebounds.<\/p>\n

The teams are tied for 13th in the Eastern Conference at 14-37, playing plenty of young players as they angle for lottery position. But Brooklyn had its full roster on the court Saturday while Washington sat a few players on the first back-to-back games.<\/p>\n

Alex Sarr (right ankle soreness), Kyshawn George<\/a> (right knee contusion) and Bilal Coulibaly<\/a> (lower back soreness) were all ruled out Saturday, while the players acquired along with Anthony Davis<\/a> from Dallas on Wednesday weren\u2019t available yet. <\/p>\n

The Wizards had won four of their previous six games, including a victory over East-leading Detroit on Thursday in their last outing.<\/p>\n

Brooklyn outscored Washington 23-3 over the final 4 1\/2 minutes of the first quarter, pushing a six-point lead to 46-20. Porter scored 13 points in the second quarter, with his free throws giving the Nets their largest lead at 60-26.<\/p>\n

It was 80-47 at halftime. It was the Nets\u2019 most points in a half since scoring 91 in the first half against Golden State on Dec. 21, 2022.<\/p>\n

Up next<\/p>\n

Wizards: Host Miami on Sunday.<\/p>\n

Nets: Host Chicago on Monday night.<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

AP NBA: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/nba<\/p>\n

The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 Michael Porter Jr. scored 23 points and the Brooklyn Nets used an 80-point first…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":126492,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63,319],"class_list":["post-126491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126491\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/126492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}