Entering this season, Nets head coach Jordi Fernandez went out of his way to prop up Nic Claxton as a future Defensive Player of the Year candidate.

The Hawks target Nic Claxton in a trade with the Nets, swapping Clint Capela and a first-round pick for defensive versatility and youth.

The Nets currently have $176.1 million of cap allocations on the roster right now, meaning that they have $1.9 million worth of space under the first apron. However, due to the sign-and-trade that brought Shake Milton to Brooklyn in the Mikal Bridges trade with the New York Knicks this past offseason, Brooklyn is hard-capped at the first apron.

Nic Claxton had a tough test in Karl-Anthony Towns in the Nets’ 99-95 loss to the Knicks on Tuesday night at Barclays Center.

The challenge for the Lakers, however, will be acquiring Claxton at the right price. The Nets signed him to a four-year, $97 million deal in the offseason, and while he hasn’t been at his peak level this season, his contract is descending, making him a potentially valuable long-term asset.

The Nets snapped their longest losing skid of the season with a slump-busting 103-84 win against the shorthanded Hornets in Charlotte, N.C.

The Nets beat the Hornets 104-83 in a game that was a wire-to-wire win for a Brooklyn that hadn't done much winning due to the amount of injuries they have been trying to overcome along with inconsistency in closing games.

Brooklyn Nets center Day'Ron Sharpe left in the third quarter of Wednesday's 104-83 win at the Charlotte Hornets due to left hamstring tightness.

Keon Johnson led a balanced Brooklyn attack with 18 points, and the Nets snapped a seven-game losing streak with a 104-83 win over the Charlotte Hornets.

I mean, we really didn’t have a losing spirit about us, it was just something that we had to mentally overcome, just a mental barrier for the team, and so for everybody to break through that together,

It's another night where the Charlotte Hornets will be shorthanded as center Mark Williams will miss his second straight game due to 'foot injury management.' T

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