{"id":82269,"date":"2025-07-22T04:37:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-22T04:37:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/82269\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T04:37:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T04:37:09","slug":"egor-demins-biggest-nets-hurdle-isnt-what-everyone-expected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/82269\/","title":{"rendered":"Egor Demin’s biggest Nets hurdle isn’t what everyone expected"},"content":{"rendered":"

For Egor Demin, his success on the court may be about his work in the weight room.<\/p>\n

Read X \u2014 always a dangerous thing \u2014 and the Nets had the worst draft in history<\/a>, thanks to taking Demin. The narrative coming into summer league was that the lottery pick\u2019s busted jumper was going to make him a bust as well.<\/p>\n

But an unexpected performance in Las Vegas<\/a> that was both strong and surprising has flipped every notion on its head. A point guard shunted off the ball? A passer who had just four assists? And a non-shooter who shot the lights out in Las Vegas?<\/p>\n

Make it all make sense.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For Egor Demin, his success on the court may be about his work in the weight room. Read…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":82270,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[3124,41056,1260,62,2225,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-82269","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-brooklyn-nets","9":"tag-egor-demin","10":"tag-nba","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\/114895037961122586","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82269","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=82269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82269\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}