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Michael Porter Jr. shoots a jumper during the first half of the Nets\u2019 104-103 overtime loss to the Magic on Jan. 7, 2025 at Barclays Center. Robert Sabo for NY Post<\/p>\nPaolo Banchero stole this game \u2014 and Egor D\u00ebmin\u2019s glory.<\/p>\n
The Magic star beat the buzzer, and a replay, and ultimately the Nets with his last-ditch heave. <\/p>\n
It turned what looked like a thrilling rally into a 104-103 overtime heartbreaker before 16,916 stunned fans at Barclays Center on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n
Michael Porter Jr. shoots a jumper during the first half of the Nets\u2019 104-103 overtime loss to the Magic on Jan. 7, 2025 at Barclays Center. Robert Sabo for NY Post<\/p>\n
\u201cGive credit to Paolo,\u201d Nets coach Jordi Fern\u00e1ndez said. \u201cAmazing player, and amazing players make amazing shots.\u201d<\/p>\n
The same could\u2019ve been said first of Michael Porter Jr., then D\u00ebmin.<\/p>\n
Porter poured in 34 points on 12-for-24 shooting \u2014 including 8-for-18 from behind the arc, tying his career high for 3-pointers. D\u00ebmin was scoreless through three quarters but took over down the stretch, with 18 points on 5-for-5 from deep in the fourth and OT.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat was one of those moments when in high school or when I was a kid, I was shooting alone in the gym and thinking about moments like this,\u201d D\u00ebmin said. \u201cGoing through things like I\u2019m hitting the game-winning shot, five 3s in a row or whatever; this was one of those moments I was manifesting when I was a kid. So it felt really good. But we didn\u2019t get a win, so it doesn\u2019t really matter.\u201d<\/p>\n
Of course, D\u00ebmin essentially is still a kid in NBA terms. A 19-year-old rookie, he\u2019s shown a fortitude beyond his tender years. This isn\u2019t the first time he\u2019s shaken off a subpar outing to have a clutch endgame.<\/p>\n
There was his equalizer with 5.6 seconds left in regulation to force bonus basketball. And then banking in a go-ahead dagger with 5.3 seconds left in overtime.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat\u2019s not the first time he\u2019s done [this], when it\u2019s been a close game in the fourth and he\u2019s made super timely shots. That\u2019s the signs of a big-time player,\u201d Porter said. \u201cHe has confidence in himself. And when you put the type of work in that he does, you can go scoreless for 3 \u00bd quarters and then hit the biggest shots of the game. So I was proud of him for staying with it and giving our team a chance to win.\u201d<\/p>\n
D\u00ebmin\u2019s last 3-pointer looked destined to be the winner. Until Banchero turned destiny around with his buzzer-beater, a 26-foot pull-up bank shot.<\/p>\n
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The Magic star finished with 30 points and 14 rebounds.<\/p>\n
Brooklyn trailed by as many as 18, and 87-73 after a Banchero bucket with 5:58 left in the fourth. But the Nets closed regulation on a 20-6 run.<\/p>\n
D\u00ebmin\u2019s first basket pulled the Nets within 91-88 with 1:46 to play, and after Ziaire Williams \u2014 who got a start for Terance Mann \u2014 stole the ball, Noah Clowney (10 points, two steals, two blocks) cut the deficit to just one with a minute to play.<\/p>\n
Clowney hit what he thought was a tough shot through contact, but it got waved off for offensive interference by Day\u2019Ron Sharpe. The play was reviewed and upheld, and after the Nets fell asleep on defense, Tristan da Silva got free for a dunk with 16.8 seconds left.<\/p>\n
But Sharpe made amends by rebounding a Porter miss and kicking out to D\u00ebmin for a tying 3-pointer with five seconds left in regulation. Porter\u2019s defense on Banchero forced a last-second miss and earned them overtime.<\/p>\n
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Egor D\u00ebmin looks to pass during the first half of the Nets\u2019 overtime loss to the Magic. AP<\/p>\n
D\u00ebmin\u2019s 3-pointer put Brooklyn ahead 100-99 with 1:07 left in the extra stanza, but Banchero found Wendell Carter for a dunk that put Orlando back out in front with 16.2 seconds left. D\u00ebmin banked in a go-ahead bucket the Nets thought was the winner.<\/p>\n
Until Banchero snatched D\u00ebmin\u2019s moment.<\/p>\n
The Nets (11-23) stayed fifth in the lottery standings, two games behind Washington and percentage points ahead of Utah.<\/p>\n
D\u00ebmin\u2019s three 3s in overtime set the Nets team record, and tied the most by an NBA rookie joining Tyler Herro, Brandon Knight, Walter Herrmann, LeBron James and Carmelo Anthony.<\/p>\n
The Nets committed to both Tyrese Martin and Jalen Wilson before Wednesday\u2019s salary guarantee deadline, league sources told The Post.<\/p>\n
Nic Claxton returned after missing two games for personal reasons but came off the bench, with Sharpe starting. Mann took a DNP.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s just a matter of having a lot of players performing well, giving looks at different roles for different players,\u201d Fern\u00e1ndez said of Mann. \u201cHe\u2019ll be back. It\u2019s just a matter of me just seeing those roles and seeing those minutes. That\u2019s it.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Paolo Banchero stole this game \u2014 and Egor D\u00ebmin\u2019s glory. The Magic star beat the buzzer, and a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":93971,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,355,99,5235,21,9,24,1558,63,1264,22768,319],"class_list":["post-93970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-nets","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-egor-demin","tag-nba","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-ny-sports-minute","tag-nyc","tag-orlando-magic","tag-paolo-banchero","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93970","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=93970"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93970\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/93971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}