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LOS ANGELES — The Nets are still winless this season without Cam Johnson, falling to 0-9 without their floor-spacing forward after Friday’s 102-101 loss to the Lakers.
It remains to be seen if Johnson — who missed a second straight game with a sprained right ankle — will be back Sunday at Oklahoma City to end this marathon six-game Western Conference road trek.
“Yeah, it’s too early right now,” Jordi Fernandez said. “We do a great job with trying to get healthy and working every day and being around with a group. That’s what we value the most is his energy, his voice right now. And right now, there’s no reason why we should make a decision, right? We want all our guys to be 100 percent healthy to come back, and whenever the time comes, we’ll make a decision.”
The Nets also value Johnson’s shooting, though they did go 17-of-38 from deep against the Lakers.
Bojan Bogdanovic, Cam Thomas, DeAnthony Melton, Maxwell Lewis, and Trendon Watford were out. Dariq Whitehead was with G League Long Island.
For the Lakers, Anthony Davis was downgraded from probable to questionable to out in a matter of minutes with plantar fasciitis.
LeBron James was available and had 29 points.
Jarred Vanderbilt, Christian Wood, Jalen Hood-Schifino and ex-Net Dorian Finney-Smith were all out. The latter was out for a joyous occasion, the birth of his son.
Ziaire Williams had 15 points and continues to rediscover his shooting stroke.
He also met up with old pal Bronny James and exchanged jerseys with his ex-Sierra Canyon (HS) teammate.
“I got his jersey. That’s my brother for life,” said Williams, who called facing Bronny’s famous father LeBron ‘an honor.’ “Shout out Bron. It’s really cool, man. It’s cool for sure.”
The Empire State Building will honor Vince Carter’s jersey retirement on Jan. 25 by being lit in the Nets’ old red, white and blue colors with his No. 15 rotating on the building’s spire.
The Long Island Nets signed ex-Celtic Oshea Brissett, according to Bobby Manning.
The forward was in camp this summer with Team Canada, coached by Fernandez.
Williams and D’Angelo Russell came back to Los Angeles with the Nets and spoke about the horrific wildfires that have killed 27 and left 82,000 still evacuated.
“It’s pretty sad. Obviously the world, some stuff happens that you can’t really control,” said Russell, a two-time former Laker. “So knowing how blessed we are and knowing we can’t take life for granted. We could be gone just like that. And, prayers to everybody that was involved.”
“I haven’t got a chance to really see the areas affected by the fires, but definitely praying for all the families affected and just hoping they just use this as a time to just stay close together, stay with the fam a lot, and just pray,” Williams said. “Everything happens for a reason and sometimes you don’t understand why. But hopefully everybody’s just happy and healthy with their families and safe.”
