{"id":252446,"date":"2025-09-25T01:34:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-25T01:34:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/252446\/"},"modified":"2025-09-25T01:34:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T01:34:10","slug":"rejuvenated-nic-claxton-returns-to-larger-nets-role-after-season-of-frustration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/252446\/","title":{"rendered":"Rejuvenated Nic Claxton returns to larger Nets role after season of frustration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nic Claxton is one of the best Nets players, and at times has been one of the league\u2019s best defenders. Then last year happened.<\/p>\n<p>As the losses mounted for the tanking Nets, so did Claxton\u2019s frustrations. Plagued by a back injury, the center made matters worse with repeated ejections and technicals. After an admittedly poor campaign, this time around, he has to be better.<\/p>\n<p>Claxton has to be more mature now, on and off the court. After becoming a father in the offseason, he\u2019ll be looked to as a veteran leader in the coming season.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYeah, we all know last year was frustrating for the team, frustrating for myself,\u201d Claxton acknowledged. \u201cI didn\u2019t perform how I wanted to.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nic Claxton is one of the best Nets players, and at times has been one of the league\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":252447,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[3124,1260,6274,62,2225,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-252446","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-brooklyn-nets","9":"tag-nba","10":"tag-nic-claxton","11":"tag-sports","12":"tag-sports-plus","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115262368285531796","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252446","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=252446"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252446\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/252447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}