NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 CJ McCollum had 25 points and seven assists and the surging Atlanta Hawks routed the Brooklyn Nets 141-107 on Friday night for their fourth straight victory and 18th in 20 games.<\/p>\n
Fifth in the Eastern Conference at 45-33, the Hawks remained 1 1\/2 games ahead of sixth-place Philadelphia and seventh-place Toronto and moved within 3 1\/2 games of fourth-place Cleveland. Atlanta and Cleveland will play a home-and-set next week.<\/p>\n
McCollum was 8 of 12 from the field, hitting 4 of 7 3-pointers.<\/p>\n
Nickeil Alexander-Walker added 21 points, and Jalen Johnson had 18 points and 11 rebounds. Onyeka Okongwu scored 15 points.<\/p>\n
Nic Claxton led Brooklyn with 16 points, and Malachi Smith had 15. The Nets lost their second straight to fall to 18-59.<\/p>\n
Atlanta scored the first 10 points and led 35-17 with 1:28 left in the first quarter. It was 71-55 at the half, with McCollum scoring 16 points and Johnson 13. McCollum was 4 of 5 from the field in the half, hitting three 3-pointers without a miss.<\/p>\n
Hawks: Host New York on Monday night.<\/p>\n
Nets: Host Washington on Sunday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 CJ McCollum had 25 points and seven assists and the surging Atlanta Hawks routed…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":185118,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[8598,98,100,99,24028,9267,74437,59642,54589,9,24,66820,23456,63,74438,833,3529,3528,28587,28392,74439,28565,28388,28389],"class_list":{"0":"post-185117","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brooklyn","8":"tag-atlanta","9":"tag-brooklyn","10":"tag-brooklyn-headlines","11":"tag-brooklyn-news","12":"tag-c-j-mccollum","13":"tag-cleveland","14":"tag-hawks-nets-score","15":"tag-jalen-johnson","16":"tag-malachi-smith","17":"tag-new-york","18":"tag-new-york-city","19":"tag-nickeil-alexander-walker","20":"tag-nicolas-claxton","21":"tag-nyc","22":"tag-onyeka-okongwu","23":"tag-package-100024-ap-online","24":"tag-package-100502-member-choice-sports-option","25":"tag-product-30599-ap-sports-news-s-wire-only","26":"tag-product-32547-ap-online-basketball-game-stories","27":"tag-product-32562-ap-online-other-sports-news","28":"tag-product-40781-ap-georgia-sports-only","29":"tag-product-40800-ap-new-jersey-sports-only","30":"tag-product-40802-ap-new-york-city-sports-only","31":"tag-product-40803-ap-new-york-state-sports-only"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185117","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=185117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185117\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/185118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}