NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 Michael Porter Jr. scored 35 points, Noah Clowney had 18 and the Brooklyn Nets beat the Charlotte Hornets 116-103 on Monday night.<\/p>\n
Nic Claxton added 13 points, 11 rebounds and six assists for Brooklyn, which had lost four in a row. Reserves Danny Wolf and Drake Powell each scored 10 points.<\/p>\n
Porter went 7 for 11 from 3-point range. The Nets went 17 for 43 from beyond the arc, compared to 12 for 32 for the Hornets.<\/p>\n
Kon Knueppel scored 18 points for Charlotte, which had won two in a row. LaMelo Ball had 12 points and 14 assists, and Collin Sexton finished with 15 points.<\/p>\n
The Hornets closed to 96-93 on Liam McNeeley’s two foul shots with 7:06 left. But Wolf converted a layup and Porter made a pullup jumper to increase the Nets’ lead to 100-93 with 6:16 remaining.<\/p>\n
Wolf and Clowney connected from long range to make it 112-98 with 2:36 left.<\/p>\n
The game was tied at 59 at halftime. Porter scored 17 points in the first half, and Knueppel had 12 at the break.<\/p>\n
Hornets: At the New York Knicks on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n
Nets: At the Chicago Bulls on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 Michael Porter Jr. scored 35 points, Noah Clowney had 18 and the Brooklyn Nets…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":58128,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,31410,31408,29599,31409,4600,9,24,23456,4610,63,833,3529,3528,28587,28392,28388,28389,31411],"class_list":["post-58127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-collin-sexton","tag-hornets-nets-score","tag-lamelo-ball","tag-liam-mcneeley","tag-michael-porter-jr","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nicolas-claxton","tag-noah-clowney","tag-nyc","tag-package-100024-ap-online","tag-package-100502-member-choice-sports-option","tag-product-30599-ap-sports-news-s-wire-only","tag-product-32547-ap-online-basketball-game-stories","tag-product-32562-ap-online-other-sports-news","tag-product-40802-ap-new-york-city-sports-only","tag-product-40803-ap-new-york-state-sports-only","tag-product-40804-ap-north-carolina-sports-only"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58127","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=58127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58127\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}