{"id":193158,"date":"2026-04-11T07:04:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T07:04:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/193158\/"},"modified":"2026-04-11T07:04:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T07:04:07","slug":"brooklyn-faces-toronto-aims-to-stop-road-slide-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/193158\/","title":{"rendered":"Brooklyn faces Toronto, aims to stop road slide"},"content":{"rendered":"

Brooklyn Nets<\/a> (20-61, 13th in the Eastern Conference) vs. Toronto Raptors<\/a> (45-36, sixth in the Eastern Conference)<\/p>\n

Toronto; Sunday, 6 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: Brooklyn will aim to stop its seven-game road losing streak when the Nets take on Toronto.<\/p>\n

The Raptors are 32-19 in conference play. Toronto ranks ninth in the NBA<\/a> allowing just 111.9 points per game while holding opponents to 46.7% shooting.<\/p>\n

The Nets are 14-36 in conference games. Brooklyn is 6-39 against opponents with a winning record.<\/p>\n

The Raptors score 114.4 points per game, 1.3 fewer points than the 115.7 the Nets allow. The Nets’ 44.3% shooting percentage from the field this season is 2.4 percentage points lower than the Raptors have allowed to their opponents (46.7%).<\/p>\n

The two teams match up for the fourth time this season. The Nets defeated the Raptors 96-81 in their last matchup on Dec. 21. Michael Porter Jr.<\/a> led the Nets with 24 points, and Brandon Ingram<\/a> led the Raptors with 19 points.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Scottie Barnes<\/a> is averaging 18.1 points, 7.4 rebounds and 5.8 assists for the Raptors. Ja’Kobe Walter is averaging 2.4 made 3-pointers over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

Ben Saraf<\/a> is averaging 7.4 points and 3.3 assists for the Nets. Tyson Etienne<\/a> is averaging 9.2 points and 1.6 rebounds while shooting 41.7% over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Raptors: 5-5, averaging 115.6 points, 41.3 rebounds, 31.5 assists, 9.9 steals and 4.0 blocks per game while shooting 50.3% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 109.4 points per game.<\/p>\n

Nets: 3-7, averaging 103.2 points, 34.8 rebounds, 23.3 assists, 9.7 steals and 4.0 blocks per game while shooting 44.4% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 116.9 points.<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Raptors: Chucky Hepburn: out (knee), RJ Barrett: out (back), Trayce Jackson-Davis: out (illness), Immanuel Quickley<\/a>: out (injury management), Collin Murray-Boyles: out (neck).<\/p>\n

Nets: Ziaire Williams: out (foot), Noah Clowney: out (ankle), Josh Minott<\/a>: out (achilles), Nic Claxton<\/a>: out (finger), Danny Wolf<\/a>: out for season (ankle), Egor Demin<\/a>: out for season (foot), Day’Ron Sharpe: out for season (thumb), Michael Porter Jr.: out for season (hamstring), Terance Mann<\/a>: out (achilles), Drake Powell: out (injury management).<\/p>\n

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The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Brooklyn Nets (20-61, 13th in the Eastern Conference) vs. Toronto Raptors (45-36, sixth in the Eastern Conference) Toronto;…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":87202,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[7936,21509,98,100,355,99,7937,5235,54398,21514,25470,4600,4568,9,24,4601,63,21496,4606,1265,19722],"class_list":{"0":"post-193158","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brooklyn","8":"tag-ben-saraf","9":"tag-brandon-ingram","10":"tag-brooklyn","11":"tag-brooklyn-headlines","12":"tag-brooklyn-nets","13":"tag-brooklyn-news","14":"tag-danny-wolf","15":"tag-egor-demin","16":"tag-event_preview","17":"tag-immanuel-quickley","18":"tag-josh-minott","19":"tag-michael-porter-jr","20":"tag-national-basketball-association","21":"tag-new-york","22":"tag-new-york-city","23":"tag-nic-claxton","24":"tag-nyc","25":"tag-scottie-barnes","26":"tag-terance-mann","27":"tag-toronto-raptors","28":"tag-tyson-etienne"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193158","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=193158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193158\/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=193158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}