{"id":186669,"date":"2026-04-05T23:37:36","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T23:37:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/186669\/"},"modified":"2026-04-05T23:37:36","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T23:37:36","slug":"nolan-traore-scores-23-points-jalen-wilson-adds-19-as-brooklyn-nets-beat-washington-wizards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/186669\/","title":{"rendered":"Nolan Traore scores 23 points, Jalen Wilson adds 19 as Brooklyn Nets beat Washington Wizards"},"content":{"rendered":"

NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 Nolan Traore<\/a> hit five 3-pointers and finished with 23 points and seven assists, Jalen Wilson<\/a> added 19 points and the Brooklyn Nets<\/a> beat the Washington Wizards<\/a> 121-115 on Sunday. <\/p>\n

The Wizards (17-61) have a two-game on the Nets (19-59) for the best lottery odds. Indiana is 18-58 entering Sunday\u2019s game at Cleveland.<\/p>\n

Washington has lost six in a row and 22 of its past 23. The Wizards had given up 305 combined points in back-to-back losses to Philadelphia ( 153-131 ) and Miami ( 152-136 ). <\/p>\n

Brooklyn won for just the second time in its past 14 games. <\/p>\n

Will Riley<\/a>, who had a career-high 31 points Saturday against the Heat, scored 30, Jamir Watkins<\/a> added 20 points, and Julian Reese had 17 points and 16 rebounds for the Wizards. Anthony Gill<\/a> also scored 17 points and Bub Carrington<\/a> had 13 points. <\/p>\n

E.J. Liddell<\/a> and Josh Minott<\/a> each scored 15 for Brooklyn. Drake Powell<\/a> added 13 points and Ochai Agbaji<\/a> scored 12.<\/p>\n

Watkins hit a 3-pointer that gave the Wizards a four-point lead with 3:50 left in the game. The Nets answered with an 8-0 run that culminated when Traore made layup that made it 109-105 with two minutes remaining and Brooklyn led the rest of the way. <\/p>\n

Leaky Black<\/a> responded with a 3-pointer that cut the deficit to a point, but Wilson and Traore hit back-to-back 3s before Trevon Scott\u2019s layup made it 117-108 with 42 seconds to go. <\/p>\n

Up next<\/p>\n

Wizards: Host Chicago on Tuesday and Thursday. <\/p>\n

Nets: Host Milwaukee on Tuesday. <\/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 Nolan Traore hit five 3-pointers and finished with 23 points and seven assists, Jalen…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":186670,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63,319],"class_list":{"0":"post-186669","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brooklyn","8":"tag-brooklyn","9":"tag-brooklyn-headlines","10":"tag-brooklyn-news","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-new-york-city","13":"tag-nyc","14":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186669","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=186669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186669\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/186670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}