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 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 Brooklyn Nets’ offense has plummeted to the bottom of the NBA with Cam Thomas sidelined. Thomas has missed Brooklyn’s last nine games due to a hamstring strain. While the team said it would reevaluate the fourth-year guard after a six-game road trip,

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The Brooklyn Nets will remain without a key bench contributor for the remainder of their six-game road trip. Head coach Jordi Fernandez said Friday that Trendon Watford is unlikely to play during the West Coast swing. The 24-year-old has missed Brooklyn's last 12 games due to a left hamstring strain.

Phoenix is notably coming off of an ugly loss at the hands of the NBA-best Cleveland Cavaliers, but the silver lining is that the Nets are currently boasting a 14-29 record and that the roster largely remains healthy going into the matchup. There are only two names on the current injury report, and the names have been mainstays over the last week.

By landing an undervalued Toronto Raptors center in a massive three-team trade, the Los Angeles Lakers could successfully strengthen their frontcourt. “The Los Angeles Lakers still have issues after the late-December trade with the Brooklyn Nets for Dorian Finney-Smith and Shake Milton,” Bleacher Report’s Eric Pincus wrote Tuesday.

During his time suiting up for the Nets, Lin wore only jersey No. 7 and put up 14.6 points, 3.6 rebounds, 5.1 assists, and 1.1 steals per game.

It's only January, and neither the Utah Jazz nor the Charlotte Hornets are in a position to make a run at a playoff berth this season. Still, Wednesday's matchup in Salt Lake City could have some implications for the two teams this spring.

HoopsHype ranks the five players who have appeared most often in trade rumors over the previous week, including Jimmy Butler.

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The reason the games are so important is because the Jazz need to lose them in order to stay on the path toward a bottom three regular season record and the best odds at the No. 1 pick in the 2025 NBA draft. The problem is that the Jazz are completely capable of winning these games.

In a recent interview, Kyrie Irving described his trade from the Brooklyn Nets to the Dallas Mavericks as a victory.