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Law Murray: The Brooklyn Nets report that Michael Porter Jr. will be available for Tuesday night vs Los Angeles Lakers. Porter missed the last two games, including a 53-point lashing in Detroit. Brooklyn also upgraded Noah Clowney (back) and Ziaire Williams (calf) to probable.
Kellan Olson: The Nets will be without Noah Clowney (back soreness) and Haywood Highsmith (right knee surgery). Tyrese Martin (left knee soreness) is questionable. Cam Thomas (left ankle sprain) and Nolan Traore (illness) are probable.
Law Murray: The Brooklyn Nets report that PF Noah Clowney (back) is doubtful and backup SG Cam Thomas (ankle) is out. Rookie PG Nolan Traore (illness) also out, so fellow rookie Ben Saraf will be available for tomorrow at LA Clippers Two-way contract EJ Liddell will also be available.
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Sharif Phillips-Keaton: At the final buzzer, the Nets beat the Nuggets 127-115. Michael Porter Jr. had 27 points and 11 rebounds while Noah Clowney had 22 points and 6 rebounds. Brooklyn consistently had one step on Denver, especially with all of their injuries, and Porter got one over his former team.
Brooklyn Nets shock Toronto Raptors 96-81 behind 24 points, 11 rebounds from Michael Porter Jr. Noah Clowney had 19 points, nine rebounds for Brooklyn. Immanuel Quickley had 17 points, 10 assists from Raptors in the loss.
What's the biggest thing that surprised you coming into the NBA? Noah Clowney: Surprised me? Q. Yeah. Clowney: How good people are. Like, you don't realize how good people are until you're here. As you look at it, you're like, "Okay." Like, and I think being young and that perspective I had, it's like, okay, I'm a first-round pick. Like, when I get here, I should be like, I mean, better than other people that's here that weren't first-round picks that might went drafted, but you don't really under you don't realize how good people are until you really get here. How strong people are, how fast, how people can think the game, make you do what they want you to do based on how they play. Like you don't realize how good they are until you hear. That's probably the biggest thing.
After a down season in 2024-25, the Nets still committed to Noah Clowney and picked up his $5.4 million option for 2026-27. His emergence would be huge for Brooklyn. “I’ve been focused more on just playing hard, giving effort,” Clowney said. “[Before] I was too worried about the end result, what the expectations were and what I should be doing, and it was causing me to get frustrated … so just playing free, playing the right way, playing hard.”
Through five games, the Nets’ third-year forward has scored just 5.2 points per game and hit only 25 percent of his shots (3-for-8 from inside the 3-point arc, and 7-for-28 from outside the arc, both down from a year ago). But head coach Jordi Fernández isn’t ready to sound the alarm just yet on the former first-round pick who showed signs of emerging into a threat last season. “He had a great summer, his body looks great,” Fernández said after the team practiced in Brooklyn on Friday. “Obviously, we want him to have a bigger impact as far as making things happen, [but] I’m very happy [with his play].”
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Nets Daily: As expected, Brooklyn Nets have exercised the 2026-27 team option on Noah Clowney’s rookie contract. He’ll make $5.4M, a $2M raise. Nets waived the two other 2023 draft picks eligible for extensions: Dariq Whitehead and Kobe Bufkin. Nets list Clowney as a “forward/center.”
Brian Lewis: Jordi Fernandez on the formerly-willowy Noah Clowney packing on offseason muscle: "Yeah he looks great. Credit to him, and the work he's put in the whole summer. He looks like a grown man at just 21. And excited; excited to watch him play real games." #Nets
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.
Front Office Sports spoke to players on more than 10 NBA teams. Most pointed to a single teammate who educated them on the settlement and helped them file for their money. For the Lakers, it was Jarred Vanderbilt; for the Nets, it was Jalen Wilson, whose fellow Kansas alumni in the NBA also credited him for making sure they filed. “I got an email, so I checked my email, and once I found out, I told some of the guys in the locker room to check their email to see if they were eligible for it,” Vanderbilt tells FOS. Nets forward Noah Clowney was grateful Wilson made sure he did it. “Nobody checks their [messages] constantly,” Clowney says. “Especially not for stuff we don’t know that’s coming.” Vanderbilt played just one year at Kentucky and is halfway through a fully guaranteed four-year, $48 million extension. Per game, Vanderbilt earns roughly $146,000, and his House settlement figure isn’t likely to amount to anything more than a single game check paid out over 10 years. Still, Vanderbilt saw no excuse for not filing for it.
