{"id":183204,"date":"2026-04-02T07:02:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T07:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/183204\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T07:02:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T07:02:08","slug":"atlanta-plays-brooklyn-on-3-game-win-streak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/183204\/","title":{"rendered":"Atlanta plays Brooklyn on 3-game win streak"},"content":{"rendered":"

Atlanta Hawks<\/a> (44-33, fifth in the Eastern Conference) vs. Brooklyn Nets<\/a> (18-58, 14th in the Eastern Conference)<\/p>\n

New York; Friday, 7:30 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: Atlanta will try to prolong its three-game win streak with a victory against Brooklyn.<\/p>\n

The Nets have gone 12-33 against Eastern Conference opponents. Brooklyn has a 12-39 record in games decided by at least 10 points.<\/p>\n

The Hawks have gone 25-22 against Eastern Conference opponents. Atlanta is second in the league scoring 18.3 fast break points per game. Nickeil Alexander-Walker<\/a> leads the Hawks averaging 4.0.<\/p>\n

The Nets’ 13.2 made 3-pointers per game this season are only 0.2 more made shots on average than the 13.0 per game the Hawks allow. The Hawks’ 47.4% shooting percentage from the field this season is 2.0 percentage points lower than the Nets have given up to their opponents (49.4%).<\/p>\n

The teams meet for the fourth time this season. In the last matchup on March 12 the Hawks won 108-97 led by 21 points from Jalen Johnson<\/a>, while Josh Minott<\/a> scored 24 points for the Nets.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Nic Claxton<\/a> is averaging 11.7 points, seven rebounds and 3.7 assists for the Nets. Ziaire Williams<\/a> is averaging 11.7 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

Johnson is scoring 22.8 points per game with 10.3 rebounds and 8.1 assists for the Hawks. Alexander-Walker is averaging 24.4 points and 3.7 rebounds while shooting 53.5% over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Nets: 1-9, averaging 100.4 points, 36.0 rebounds, 22.8 assists, 10.0 steals and 4.2 blocks per game while shooting 42.2% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 113.3 points per game.<\/p>\n

Hawks: 8-2, averaging 122.3 points, 43.9 rebounds, 29.9 assists, 9.6 steals and 4.5 blocks per game while shooting 48.6% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 112.0 points.<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Nets: Danny Wolf<\/a>: out (ankle), Egor Demin<\/a>: out for season (foot), Day’Ron Sharpe: out for season (thumb), Terance Mann<\/a>: day to day (achilles), Michael Porter<\/a> Jr.: out (hamstring).<\/p>\n

Hawks: Jock Landale: day to day (ankle).<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Atlanta Hawks (44-33, fifth in the Eastern Conference) vs. Brooklyn Nets (18-58, 14th in the Eastern Conference) New…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":87202,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[1262,98,100,355,99,7937,5235,54398,59642,25470,4600,4568,9,24,4601,66820,63,4606,4607],"class_list":{"0":"post-183204","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brooklyn","8":"tag-atlanta-hawks","9":"tag-brooklyn","10":"tag-brooklyn-headlines","11":"tag-brooklyn-nets","12":"tag-brooklyn-news","13":"tag-danny-wolf","14":"tag-egor-demin","15":"tag-event_preview","16":"tag-jalen-johnson","17":"tag-josh-minott","18":"tag-michael-porter-jr","19":"tag-national-basketball-association","20":"tag-new-york","21":"tag-new-york-city","22":"tag-nic-claxton","23":"tag-nickeil-alexander-walker","24":"tag-nyc","25":"tag-terance-mann","26":"tag-ziaire-williams"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183204","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=183204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183204\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}