NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 Ochai Agbaji scored 18 points in 25 minutes off the bench and the Brooklyn Nets snapped a 10-game losing streak with a 116-99 win over the Sacramento Kings on Sunday night.<\/p>\n
Agbaji led five Nets in double-figure scoring as Nolan Traore had 17, Drake Powell 16, Noah Clowney 15 and Nic Claxton 10 for Brooklyn.<\/p>\n
Sacramento fell to 19-57 with its fourth straight loss.<\/p>\n
Devin Carter scored 20 points for the Kings, who lost their fourth straight. Nique Clifford added 17, Precious Achiuwa had 16 and DaQuan Jeffries 14.<\/p>\n
The second matchup in six days of franchises building for the future saw Nets coach Jordi Fernandez and Kings coach Doug Christie get extended looks at their young players.<\/p>\n
There were 10 Nets who played at least 10 minutes, led by Traore\u2019s 30, while the Kings had nine get playing time. Clifford led Sacramento with 37 minutes.<\/p>\n
Brooklyn put the game away in a span of 8:44 between the end of the first quarter and the midpoint of the second with a 23-7 run.<\/p>\n
Agbaji scored nine of his 18 points in the stretch for the Nets.<\/p>\n
It wasn\u2019t all offense for Brooklyn in the first half. The Nets limited the Kings to 26.7% shooting from 3 and forced nine turnovers.<\/p>\n
Sacramento outscored Brooklyn 28-18 in the third quarter and opened the final 12 minutes with a 10-6 spurt to cut the Nets\u2019 lead to 92-83. That was as close as the Kings would come.<\/p>\n
Kings: Finish their five-game road trip Wednesday in Toronto.<\/p>\n
Nets: Continue their season-high six-game homestand Tuesday against Charlotte.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 Ochai Agbaji scored 18 points in 25 minutes off the bench and the Brooklyn…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":179264,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,69673,72455,4570,72454,9,24,23456,4610,63,21516,833,3529,37015,3528,28587,28392,28381,28388,28389,9421],"class_list":["post-179263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-devin-carter","tag-doug-christie","tag-jordi-fernandez","tag-kings-nets-score","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nicolas-claxton","tag-noah-clowney","tag-nyc","tag-ochai-agbaji","tag-package-100024-ap-online","tag-package-100502-member-choice-sports-option","tag-precious-achiuwa","tag-product-30599-ap-sports-news-s-wire-only","tag-product-32547-ap-online-basketball-game-stories","tag-product-32562-ap-online-other-sports-news","tag-product-40776-ap-california-sports-only","tag-product-40802-ap-new-york-city-sports-only","tag-product-40803-ap-new-york-state-sports-only","tag-sacramento"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179263","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=179263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179263\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/179264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}