{"id":63024,"date":"2025-12-07T01:23:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-07T01:23:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/63024\/"},"modified":"2025-12-07T01:23:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-07T01:23:07","slug":"michael-porter-jr-nic-claxton-lead-brooklyn-nets-to-victory-over-new-orleans-pelicans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/63024\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Porter Jr., Nic Claxton lead Brooklyn Nets to victory over New Orleans Pelicans"},"content":{"rendered":"

NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 Michael Porter Jr.<\/a> tied his season high with 35 points, Nic Claxton<\/a> had his second triple-double and the Brooklyn Nets<\/a> beat the New Orleans Pelicans<\/a> 119-101 on Saturday.<\/p>\n

Porter matched his career best by reaching 30 for a third straight game, having also done it last Feb. 3-6 during his final season with Denver. He made five 3-pointers and had nine rebounds after sitting out Thursday to rest his back in the second night of a back-to-back.<\/p>\n

Claxton finished with 14 points, 11 rebounds and 10 assists. He\u2019s the first Nets player with multiple triple-doubles in a season since James Harden<\/a> (nine) and Kevin Durant<\/a> (four) in 2021-22, and the second Nets center with multiple career triple-doubles. Shawn Bradley had five from 1995-97.<\/p>\n

Day\u2019Ron Sharpe added 16 points on 7-for-8 shooting as Brooklyn won for the third time in four games to improve to 6-17.<\/p>\n

Trey Murphy III<\/a> scored 23 points for the Pelicans, who lost their sixth straight game and fell to 3-21. Saddiq Bey<\/a> added 18 points and Bryce McGowens<\/a> had 16.<\/p>\n

The Nets shot 63.6% and had 13 assists on their 14 baskets in the first quarter, taking a 35-24 lead. Porter scored 13 points in the second quarter on 5-for-6 shooting as Brooklyn made it 62-44 at halftime.<\/p>\n

The Nets led by 28 points in the second half.<\/p>\n

Up next<\/p>\n

Pelicans: Host San Antonio on Monday night.<\/p>\n

Nets: At Dallas on Friday night.<\/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 Michael Porter Jr. tied his season high with 35 points, Nic Claxton had his…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":63025,"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-63024","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\/63024","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=63024"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63024\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}