{"id":412015,"date":"2023-02-09T22:58:13","date_gmt":"2023-02-10T03:58:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=412015"},"modified":"2023-02-09T22:58:13","modified_gmt":"2023-02-10T03:58:13","slug":"nets-beat-bulls-in-first-game-after-durants-departure","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/nets-beat-bulls-in-first-game-after-durants-departure\/","title":{"rendered":"Nets beat Bulls in first game after Durant&#8217;s departure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After moving superstar Kevin Durant in a deal with the Phoenix Suns in the early hours of Thursday morning. the Brooklyn Nets lit up Barclays Center in a 116-105 win over the Chicago Bulls.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Brooooooooklyn <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/lJQWMCCLBE\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/lJQWMCCLBE<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Brooklyn Nets (@BrooklynNets) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BrooklynNets\/status\/1623878865956249601?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">February 10, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Spencer Dinwiddie scored team-high 25 points in his first game since returning to Brooklyn. It was his first game in a Nets uniform since Dec. 27, 2020.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Glad to have ya back, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SDinwiddie_25?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@SDinwiddie_25<\/a> \ud83d\ude01 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/AwArBcm23u\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/AwArBcm23u<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Brooklyn Nets (@BrooklynNets) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BrooklynNets\/status\/1623889565403545601?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">February 10, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Dinwiddie spent five seasons with the team and returned with 18 points in the second half with new arrivals Mikal Bridges, who is a Defensive Player of the Year candidate, and Cam Johnson -a prototypical 3-and-D wing, watching from the sidelines.<\/p>\n<p>Zach LaVine finished with 38 points on 16-of-25 shooting from the field and DeMar DeRozan had 14 for Chicago, which lost its second straight and fell to 10-18 on the road.<\/p>\n<p>After three straight 40-point games, Cam Thomas shot 3 of 16 from the field and finished with 20 points.<\/p>\n<p>Defense will be the calling card for the new-look Nets. They are now 2-2 in games without both Irving and Durant in the past week.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m not going to sugarcoat it, it\u2019s always difficult when you\u2019re trading a player of that stature and that ilk,\u201d Nets general manager Sean Marks said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy job as GM and our job as a front office is to try and bring in that caliber of talent. So those decisions are not easy, they come with a lot of thought, a lot of process on systemic debriefs and discussions that go along with that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Next, they have a true test: Joel Embiid, James Harden, Tyrese Maxey and the Philadelphia 76ers come to town on Saturday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After moving superstar Kevin Durant in a deal with the Phoenix Suns in the early hours of Thursday morning. the Brooklyn Nets lit [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4224,"featured_media":412016,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16720,16719,16869,16841,16798,17400],"news_category":[16706],"gn_keywords":[],"acf":{"announce":"Spencer Dinwiddie scored team-high 25 points in his first game since returning to Brooklyn","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/412015"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4224"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=412015"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/412015\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/412016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=412015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=412015"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=412015"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=412015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}