The Brooklyn Nets will host the New York Knicks on Tuesday night at Barclays Center. D’Angelo Russell is questionable on the team’s injury report due to left hamstring tightness/injury management. Here’s everything we know about Russell’s injury and playing status vs.
Tuesday marked D'Angelo Russell's first game back in New York's interborough rivalry after the Brooklyn Nets acquired him in a trade last month. During his first stint in the Big Apple, the Nets were the trendy up-and-comers while the flailing New York Knicks toiled in mediocrity.
Here are the Brooklyn Nets player grades following Tuesday's 99-95 loss to the New York Knicks in Mikal Bridges' return to Brooklyn.
Bridges — a former 2022 All-Defensive First Team honoree — has upped the ante on the perimeter. He can now continue such play when the Knicks take on Jamal Murray and the Denver Nuggets in their next outing.
Karl-Anthony Towns had 25 points and 16 rebounds, Jalen Brunson scored eight points down the stretch and finished with 17 as the New York Knicks beat the Brooklyn Nets 99-95.
Karl-Anthony Towns, who is in his first season playing for the New York Knicks ... Before the season began, Brooklyn Nets star D'Angelo Russell predicted that Towns would make the All-Star ...
After the Los Angeles Lakers traded Russell, Maxwell Lewis and three second-round picks to the Nets last month in exchange for Dorian Finney-Smith and Shake Milton, he dropped 22 points off the bench in his season debut with Brooklyn in a 130-113 loss to the Toronto Raptors on Jan. 1.
The Brooklyn Nets return home from a six-game West Coast road trip for a much-anticipated crosstown battle at the Barclays Center with the New York Knicks ... and D'Angelo Russell is "probable."
The Brooklyn Nets lost to the New York Knicks last night ... In a low-scoring affair, D'Angelo Russell led Brooklyn in scoring and assists, putting up 23 points with 10 dimes.
Russell has struggled to stay on the floor since joining the Nets in a Dec. 29 trade from the Los Angeles Lakers. He's missed six of the team's last 13 matchups while battling shin and hamstring ailments. The veteran point guard has shouldered a much heavier on-ball burden than with the Lakers during the first half of this season.
The Knicks defeated the Nets, 99-95, with Towns recording a huge double-double of 25 points and 16 rebounds. Meanwhile, Russell also had a double-double as he topped the scoring for his team with 23 points on 6 of 17 shooting, along with 10 assists.
The Brooklyn Nets announced on Monday that forward Ziaire Williams is out for Tuesday's game against the New York Knicks due to a left ankle sprain.