{"id":6826,"date":"2025-10-17T19:50:38","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T19:50:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/6826\/"},"modified":"2025-10-17T19:50:38","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T19:50:38","slug":"egor-demin-tells-the-post-how-hes-dealing-with-nets-expectations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/6826\/","title":{"rendered":"Egor Demin tells The Post how he&#8217;s dealing with Nets expectations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TORONTO \u2014 After being sidelined since the end of Summer League \u2013 missing training camp and most of the preseason \u2013 Brooklyn\u2019s Egor Demin will <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/10\/16\/sports\/egor-demin-set-for-nets-preseason-debut-with-competition-in-full-swing\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">finally get to make his delayed debut<\/a> Friday night against the Raptors.<\/p>\n<p>But both the Nets and their first lottery pick in 15 years are trying to avoid heaping too much pressure on the teenager.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou know, there\u2019s going to be a moment of just getting back to the rhythm,\u201d Demin told the Post. \u201cObviously, four practices back is not the same as the rest of the group that was practicing for two months straight, right?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd for me, I\u2019m approaching it in a way of learning and getting back to the conditions, and just kind of getting back to the group, really trying to understand who is who and why we are doing it in general. So for me, I\u2019m not trying (to overthink). I\u2019m going to try to play my best, but I\u2019m not trying to save the world. I\u2019m trying to really get back to the rhythm. I\u2019ll say that.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TORONTO \u2014 After being sidelined since the end of Summer League \u2013 missing training camp and most of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6827,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,355,99,5235,68,21,9,24,63,319,428],"class_list":{"0":"post-6826","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-exclusive","14":"tag-nba","15":"tag-new-york","16":"tag-new-york-city","17":"tag-nyc","18":"tag-sports","19":"tag-sports-plus"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6826","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=6826"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6826\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}