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Keon Johnson Rumors
Brian Lewis: The #Nets injury report is packed. Noah Clowney and Cam Thomas are givens, shut down for the year. But Cam Johnson (lower back contusion), Keon Johnson (rest), D'Angelo Russell (right ankle sprain) and Day'Ron Sharpe (right knee sprain) will be out tomorrow vs the #Pelicans.
The night before Halloween, Ja Morant scored on the Nets’ Keon Johnson, and then he let Johnson hear about it for the entirety of his jog back on defense. By the free throw line, Johnson had his chest pressed into Morant’s and there was zero chance the words filling the air were G-rated. Quick double technicals were called, meaning that about 35 minutes of playing time into his season, Johnson had become this season’s first NBA player to be ejected for being saucy. But not the last. A quick tour of the Spotrac database shows players are getting ejected fighting-or-close every few days. Click through the table for a list of ejections as of a few days ago (edited to remove those are clearly for off-court or nonviolent infractions).
Nic Claxton’s layup beat the buzzer — and beat the 76ers, 105-103, on Saturday night in a play he called one of the highlights of his career. The Nets center put back a Keon Johnson miss, an acrobatic shot that just barely beat the clock and subsequently saw him “mobbed” by Ziaire Williams, Trendon Watford and the rest of the Nets before a stunned sellout crowd of 20,431. “Originally, I didn’t even know that I did beat the buzzer, so I was just trying to process everything, and I was just looking in the crowd, just looking around. And I was like, ‘I think it was good.’ And everybody came and just mobbed me. It was a great feeling, a great feeling,” said Claxton. “It’s definitely top three [moments of my career]. All the years I’ve been hooping, it’s definitely three or two.”
Erik Slater: Final: Nets 102, Heat 86 C. Johnson: 18 pts, 5 reb, 6/12 FG Russell: 17 pts, 5/15 FG Claxton: 12 pts, 10 reb, 4 blk, 6/12 FG Watford: 12 pts, 3 ast, 6/11 FG K. Johnson: 11 pts, 7 reb, 4/12 FG BKN holds MIA to 32/90 (36%) from the field to pick up its fourth win in five games.
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Erik Slater: Final: Nets 110, Rockets 98 Williams: 21 pts, 8 reb, 8/15 FG Russell: 18 pts, 3 ast, 6/14 FG Claxton: 17 pts. 5 reb, 8/14 FG Wilson: 13 pts, 8 reb, 5/9 FG K. Johnson: 13 pts, 8 reb, 5 ast, 3/9 FG Brooklyn wins back-to-back games for the first time since late November.
Erik Slater: Final: Spurs 96, Nets 87 K. Johnson: 25 pts, 3 ast, 10/20 FG Milton: 16 pts, 12 ast, 5/9 FG Martin: 13 pts, 6/14 FG Claxton: 11 pts, 10 reb, 5/13 FG Wilson: 11 pts, 4/13 FG BKN shoots 35/90 (39%) from the field and 12/41 from three (29%) without Cam Johnson and Ben Simmons.
Erik Slater: Final: Nets 111, Bucks 105 C. Johnson: 29 pts, 8/13 FG, 4/6 from 3 Clowney: 20 pts, 6/9 from 3 Milton: 20 pts, 7/10 FG, 4/6 from 3 Claxton: 13 pts, 7 reb, 5/12 FG K. Johnson: 12 pts, 5/15 FG Cam Johnson, Noah Clowney, and Shake Milton power Brooklyn to a win.
Erik Slater: Final: Magic 123, Nets 100 Milton: 22 pts, 4 ast, 7/13 FG K. Johnson: 15 pts, 6/16 FG C. Johnson: 14 pts, 4 ast, 5/10 FG Watford: 13 pts, 6/11 FG Wilson: 11 pts, 4/6 FG Brooklyn's offense stalls after a competitive start with Dennis Schroder and Cam Thomas sidelined.
Erik Slater: Final: Nets 120, Bulls 112 Thomas: 32 pts, 4 ast, 11/23 FG C. Johnson: 14 pts, 6 reb, 5 ast, 5/11 FG K. JOhnson: 12 pts, 5/6 FG Claxton: 12 pts, 9 reb, 6/8 FG Simmons: 8 pts, 8 reb, 11 ast, 4/5 FG Brooklyn advances to 3-3.
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Brian Lewis: Noah Clowney & Keon Johnson running a kids basketball camp. Clowney on rebuilding #Nets: “People think we can't compete and that'll mean we're supposed to go out and lay down. But I think we’re young, we can grow together and we can do something and that's the goal.”
Keon Johnson will return to Brooklyn
Shams Charania: Free agent G Keon Johnson has agreed to a multiyear contract to return to the Brooklyn Nets, sources tell @TheAthletic @Stadium. Johnson played five games for Brooklyn a season ago and has averaged 16.3 points, 5.8 assists and 4.8 rebounds per game for Nets in NBA Summer League. pic.twitter.com/uLIfBqN0DY
Michael Scotto: The Brooklyn Nets and Keon Johnson have agreed to a two-year deal, which is partially guaranteed Year 1 and has a team option Year 2, league sources told @hoopshype. Johnson began his Nets tenure on a two-way deal and now gets a standard contract after an impressive Summer League pic.twitter.com/FmszT5Yk8F
Brian Lewis: Keon Johnson, who is a UFA: “Right now I'm just really focused on Summer League. This is the only opportunity that I know I have right now. So I'm just really focused on playing Summer League and just showing what I can do and hopefully I'll be here.” #nets pic.twitter.com/BR1WrgdiEK
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