{"id":89114,"date":"2026-01-04T23:43:18","date_gmt":"2026-01-04T23:43:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/89114\/"},"modified":"2026-01-04T23:43:18","modified_gmt":"2026-01-04T23:43:18","slug":"michael-porter-jr-scores-27-points-against-his-old-team-as-brooklyn-nets-beat-denver-nuggets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/89114\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Porter Jr. scores 27 points against his old team as Brooklyn Nets beat Denver Nuggets"},"content":{"rendered":"

NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 Michael Porter Jr.<\/a> had 27 points, 11 rebounds and five assists in his first game against his former team, and the Brooklyn Nets<\/a> beat the Denver Nuggets<\/a> 127-115 on Sunday to snap a three-game losing streak.<\/p>\n

The Nuggets got Aaron Gordon<\/a> and Christian Braun<\/a> back from lengthy injury absences and a huge game from Jamal Murray<\/a>, but fell to 1-2 since Nikola Jokic<\/a> was lost for perhaps a month with a hyperextended left knee.<\/p>\n

Murray finished with 27 points, a career-high 16 assists and six rebounds. Gordon had 20 points off the bench after missing 19 games with a strained right hamstring, while Braun started and scored four points after he sat out 23 games with a sprained left ankle.<\/p>\n

Noah Clowney<\/a> added 22 points for the Nets, while Cam Thomas<\/a> and Day\u2019Ron Sharpe each had 17. Sharpe started at center with Nic Claxton<\/a> out for personal reasons.<\/p>\n

Porter played six seasons for the Nuggets after being taken with the No. 14 pick in the 2018 draft and was a starter on their 2023 NBA championship team. He was traded to Brooklyn in the offseason for Cam Johnson and came in averaging a career-high 25.8 points.<\/p>\n

He scored nine points in the second quarter and Brooklyn led 59-52 at halftime after Murray\u2019s jumper with 0.2 seconds to play.<\/p>\n

The Nets quickly opened it up again in the third quarter. Brooklyn was 7 for 9 from 3-point range in the period, scoring 41 points and taking a 100-84 advantage to the fourth.<\/p>\n

Tim Hardaway Jr.<\/a> had two 3-pointers to open the fourth and cut it to 10, but Thomas had the last seven points of a 12-0 spurt that blew it open at 112-90. <\/p>\n

Hardaway scored 26 but Denver fell to 1-4 on its seven-game Eastern trip. Johnson sat out with a knee injury.<\/p>\n

Up next<\/p>\n

Nuggets: Visit Philadelphia on Monday.<\/p>\n

Nets: Host Orlando on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

AP NBA: https:\/\/www.apnews.com\/hub\/NBA<\/p>\n

Brian Mahoney, The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 Michael Porter Jr. had 27 points, 11 rebounds and five assists in his first…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":89115,"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-89114","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\/89114","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=89114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89114\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}