{"id":7224,"date":"2025-10-18T02:41:06","date_gmt":"2025-10-18T02:41:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/7224\/"},"modified":"2025-10-18T02:41:06","modified_gmt":"2025-10-18T02:41:06","slug":"egor-demin-makes-nba-debut-with-brooklyn-nets-vs-toronto-raptors-deseret-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/7224\/","title":{"rendered":"Egor Demin makes NBA debut with Brooklyn Nets vs. Toronto Raptors \u2013 Deseret News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Brooklyn Nets had played three preseason games prior to Friday night, but Egor Demin \u2014 the former BYU Cougars star and the eighth overall pick in the 2025 NBA draft by the Nets \u2014 had yet to play because he was dealing with plantar fasciitis.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Demin finally took the court Friday night as Brooklyn faced the Toronto Raptors on the road, and the return was extremely positive.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">In 19 minutes of play off the bench, Demin tallied 14 points, five rebounds, an assist and a block. Perhaps most importantly for the 19-year-old Russian, he shot 3 of 5 from the field \u2014 including 2 of 3 from behind the 3-point line \u2014 and went 6 of 7 from the free throw line.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.deseret.com\/resizer\/v2\/UHKGP77IT5E3JLPDLCGEIU5ZBI.jpg?auth=d58d6a687825dbcea900eae34347fd2f8912acd79ed453d1c152648d070b624a&amp;width=300\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Special Collector&#8217;s Issue: &#8220;1984: The Year BYU was Second to None&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Get an inclusive look inside BYU Football&#8217;s 1984 National Championship season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The performance had Nets fans and others on social media buzzing. Here\u2019s just a sampling.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Ben Saraf has looked more aggressive in the second half, but Egor Demin should be the starting point guard on Opening Night.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Luigi457 (@Luigi__457) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Luigi__457\/status\/1979359720105480221?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">October 18, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Egor Demin is making All-Rookie 1st Team this year.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Aaron Bagley (@aaronbag1ey) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/aaronbag1ey\/status\/1979360294385389934?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">October 18, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">As a prospect, there were concerns about Egor Demin\u2019s ability to get downhill and\/or create space against NBA-level defenders and athletes<\/p>\n<p>So it\u2019s great to see him make plays like this, where he blows by his defender using a fake DHO &amp; whips a pass to his teammate in the corner <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/vZB8kLNcS5\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/vZB8kLNcS5<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Point Made Basketball (@pointmadebball) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/pointmadebball\/status\/1979351517451931949?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">October 18, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">It was a continuation of the strong shooting performance Demin had during NBA Summer League in July and comes as the major knock on his game since before he arrived at BYU was his inconsistent shooting.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">For the Raptors Friday, former Utah Runnin\u2019 Utes star Jakob Poeltl had 10 points, 10 rebounds, two steals, two blocks and an assist, and former Utah Jazz guard Ochai Agbaji tallied two points, two rebounds and an assist. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Former Wasatch Academy standout Collin Murray-Boyles did not play after sustaining an elbow injury last week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Both teams have now completed preseason action as they gear up for the beginning of the regular season next week.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Brooklyn Nets had played three preseason games prior to Friday night, but Egor Demin \u2014 the former&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7225,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,6407,9,24,63,319],"class_list":{"0":"post-7224","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-byu-cougars","12":"tag-new-york","13":"tag-new-york-city","14":"tag-nyc","15":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7224","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=7224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7224\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}