{"id":140758,"date":"2026-02-21T04:20:06","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T04:20:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/140758\/"},"modified":"2026-02-21T04:20:06","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T04:20:06","slug":"new-acquisition-jared-mccain-scores-21-as-oklahoma-city-thunder-beat-brooklyn-nets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/140758\/","title":{"rendered":"New acquisition Jared McCain scores 21 as Oklahoma City Thunder beat Brooklyn Nets"},"content":{"rendered":"

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) \u2014 Jared McCain<\/a> scored a season-high 21 points and the short-handed Oklahoma City Thunder<\/a> beat the Brooklyn Nets<\/a> 105-86 on Friday night.<\/p>\n

McCain, the former Philadelphia 76er the Thunder acquired in a trade this month, posted his highest points total in five games with Oklahoma City. He made 7 of 12 field goals and 3 of 6 3-pointers in a reserve role.<\/p>\n

The Thunder have several players dealing with injuries, including reigning MVP Shai Gilgeous-Alexander<\/a> (abdominal strain) and 2025 All-Star Jalen Williams<\/a> (strained right hamstring). Both are to be re-evaluated in the coming weeks.<\/p>\n

Oklahoma City compensated with balanced scoring. Chet Holmgren<\/a> scored 15 points, Isaiah Joe<\/a> had 11 and Isaiah Hartenstein<\/a> and Lu Dort each added 10.<\/p>\n

Michael Porter Jr.<\/a> had 22 points and nine rebounds, and Nolan Traore<\/a> added 17 points for the Nets. Brooklyn shot just 36.7% from the field in its third straight loss.<\/p>\n

Oklahoma City trailed 23-21 at the end of the first quarter, but took control early in the second and broke out to a 38-26 lead. Brooklyn went the first 8 1\/2 minutes of the second quarter without a field goal.<\/p>\n

Dort was fouled on a made 3-pointer with 2:18 left in the second quarter. He made the free throw to put the Thunder up 43-30.<\/p>\n

Oklahoma City led 50-33 at halftime after holding the Nets to 3-for-17 shooting in the second quarter. It was the lowest-scoring half the Thunder have allowed this season, and the 10 points for Brooklyn were a low for an Oklahoma City opponent.<\/p>\n

Thunder guard Nikola Topic<\/a>, who recently made his NBA debut after undergoing treatment for testicular cancer, hit a 3-pointer and a finger roll during a 7-3 run that gave the Thunder an 86-70 lead.<\/p>\n

Up next<\/p>\n

Nets: At Atlanta on Sunday.<\/p>\n

Thunder: Host Cleveland on Sunday.<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

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

Cliff Brunt, The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) \u2014 Jared McCain scored a season-high 21 points and the short-handed Oklahoma City Thunder beat…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":140759,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63,319],"class_list":["post-140758","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\/140758","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=140758"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140758\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/140759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}