Denver Nuggets @ Brooklyn Nets
Sunday, January 4, 2026 at 3:30 PM ET
Barclays Center, Brooklyn, NY | Game ID: 22500496
Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Final
BKN 33 26 41 27 127DEN 29 23 32 31 115
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Michael Porter Jr. scores 27 points against his old team as the Nets beat the Nuggets 127-115
NEW YORK -- — Michael Porter Jr . had 27 points, 11 rebounds and five assists in his first game against his former team, and the Brooklyn Nets beat the Denver Nuggets 127-115 on Sunday to snap a three-game losing streak.
The Nuggets got Aaron Gordon and Christian Braun back from lengthy injury absences and a huge game from Jamal Murray , but fell to 1-2 since Nikola Jokic was lost for perhaps a month with a hyperextended left knee.
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.
Noah Clowney added 22 points for the Nets, while Cam Thomas and Day'Ron Sharpe each had 17. Sharpe started at center with Nic Claxton out for personal reasons.
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.
He scored nine points in the second quarter and Brooklyn led 59-52 at halftime after Murray's jumper with 0.2 seconds to play.
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.
Tim Hardaway Jr . 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.
Hardaway scored 26 but Denver fell to 1-4 on its seven-game Eastern trip. Johnson sat out with a knee injury.
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Who
Who is who
the initials in the Players column
DENAG A. Gordon
BB B. Brown
CB C. Braun
DH D. Holmes II
JM J. Murray
JP J. Pickett
PW P. Watson
SJ S. Jones
TH T. Hardaway Jr.
ZN Z. Nnaji
BKNCT C. Thomas
DP D. Powell
DS D. Sharpe
DW D. Wolf
DE Demin
ED E. Dëmin
MP M. Porter Jr.
NC N. Clowney
NT N. Traore
TM T. Mann
ZW Z. Williams
DEN/BKN the team itself, not a player
-- the feed named nobody
What
What happened
the codes in the Events column
M2 / M3 made 2 / made 3
X2 / X3 missed 2 / missed 3
FT / X1 free throw made / missed
AST assist
OR / DR offensive / defensive rebound
STL steal
BLK block
TO turnover
FL foul
OF offensive foul — ends the possession
VIOL violation
JUMP jump ball
TM timeout
IR instant replay
HE heave at the buzzer, filed to the team
Where
Where a shot came from
the middle field of M3.LW.25
RM at the rim inside 4 ft
RC right corner
RW right wing
SO straight on
LW left wing
LC left corner
M3.LW.25 made 3, left wing, 25 ft
X2.RM.01 missed 2, at the rim, 1 ft
When
When it happened
the Offset column
one number per event, in the Events order:
whole seconds from the start of the
possession to that event
Events FL X3.RC.23 OR M2.RM.01
Offset 0 18 22 24
the foul opens the possession at 0s;
the putback ends it at 24s, which is
the possession's own Dur