{"id":52540,"date":"2025-11-26T04:25:14","date_gmt":"2025-11-26T04:25:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/52540\/"},"modified":"2025-11-26T04:25:14","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T04:25:14","slug":"rookie-nolan-traore-making-his-mark-on-nets-g-league-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/52540\/","title":{"rendered":"Rookie Nolan Traore making his mark on Nets&#8217; G-League team"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When the Nets drafted three point guards in the most recent draft, it was unclear what the plan would be, other than tanking this season.<\/p>\n<p>The team has noted that there can be multiple playmakers on the court at the same time, which so far hasn\u2019t happened, not with Egor D\u00ebmin in Brooklyn and the other two players at least designated as playing the position, Ben Saraf and Nolan Traore, either currently hurt (Saraf) or in the G-League (Traore).<\/p>\n<p>But Traore has shown some potential recently with Long Island, putting up 15 points, nine assists and a pair of rebounds, as well as a steal and a block in their most recent game.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.49707602;display:block\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"37768561\" width=\"883\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Nolan-Traore.jpg\" alt=\"Nolan Traore's strong play with the Long Island Nets, Brooklyn's G-League team, has drawn the attention of head coach Jordi Fern\u00e1ndez.\" class=\"wp-image-37768561\"  \/>Nolan Traore\u2019s strong play with the Long Island Nets, Brooklyn\u2019s G-League team, has drawn the attention of head coach Jordi Fern\u00e1ndez. NBAE via Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>It was the No. 19 pick\u2019s sixth straight game scoring in double figures, and his recent play caught the attention of Jordi Fern\u00e1ndez in Brooklyn.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cVery good performance,\u2019\u2019 the head coach said<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/11\/24\/sports\/knicks-extend-dominance-over-nets-to-historic-level\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> before his team\u2019s most recent loss to the Knicks on Monday<\/a>. \u201cI texted him. I watched the game. We want to play a competitive and winning game of basketball. It starts with the habits. I know he saw the ball go in [offensively], which [is something] you can\u2019t always control. But you can control taking the right shots, making the right play.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Traore has done a better job of that lately, and along with Danny Wolf, who the Nets are banking on becoming a playmaking forward, have provided reasons for optimism, even if they aren\u2019t at the NBA level and the current Nets are in the midst of an ugly season.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThose are consistent steps and we want to see this group competing at a high level, too,\u2019\u2019 Fern\u00e1ndez said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When the Nets drafted three point guards in the most recent draft, it was unclear what the plan&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":52541,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,355,99,5235,4570,21,9,24,63,319],"class_list":{"0":"post-52540","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-nets","11":"tag-brooklyn-news","12":"tag-egor-demin","13":"tag-jordi-fernandez","14":"tag-nba","15":"tag-new-york","16":"tag-new-york-city","17":"tag-nyc","18":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52540","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=52540"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52540\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}