Summarize this content to 2000 words in 6 paragraphs in Arabic <\/p>\n
As the trade deadline approaches, teams often get distracted.<\/p>\n
If anything, the Nets seem determined.<\/p>\n
Before the Nets\u2019 Wednesday night\u2019s debacle against the Wizards \u2014 their last before the deadline \u2014 they had won a season-high three consecutive games. <\/p>\n
But they ended up stumbling against the league\u2019s sorriest team and failed to win a fourth straight, which would have been their longest streak since 2022-23, and came up woefully short. <\/p>\n
And this in a season where they are tanking, where they have already traded away Dennis Schroder and Dorian Finney-Smith while Cam Johnson, Day\u2019Ron Sharpe and Nic Claxton are all linked to trade rumors.<\/p>\n
But all three suited up Wednesday and were available hours before the deadline, a telltale sign.<\/p>\n
Sources have told The Post that Brooklyn wasn\u2019t and still isn\u2019t shopping Johnson. <\/p>\n
While all situations are fluid around the deadline, another team was going to have to turn the Nets\u2019 head with a last-minute offer because they weren\u2019t making calls soliciting one.<\/p>\n
But Johnson\u2019s name had constantly come up in rumors since the season started, and they only got louder when Schroder and Finney-Smith were shipped to the Warriors and Lakers, respectively. <\/p>\n
At this point, blocking out the rumors has almost become old hat for Johnson, Sharpe, Claxton and the rest of the Nets. Schroder ended up with the Jazz as part of Wednesday\u2019s Jimmy Butler trade.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think our group has handled it great because if you think about it, our group has been involved in talks from the beginning, right?\u201d coach Jordi Fernandez said. \u201cI think that\u2019s the reason why they just kept working and keep competing. And these last few days [are] not different than whatever weeks ago when some trades happened.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo I think the fact we\u2019ve been involved in things, it made [it] more like a normal thing for us. And you saw it [Tuesday]; guys played hard, and I\u2019m expecting our guys to play hard. Obviously, if somebody needs to talk to anyone or has questions or whatever the case may be, we\u2019re open to talk to them like we\u2019ve always been. It\u2019s part of the business and we have a few hours left here.\u201d<\/p>\n
The trade deadline is 3 p.m. Thursday. <\/p>\n
Though Nets general manager Sean Marks loves to operate in stealth mode, taking particular joy in not letting the media or opposing front offices guess his next move, reading the room and the tea leaves can give hints about which direction he\u2019s leaning.<\/p>\n
Listening to sources around the league, and \u2014 more importantly \u2014 watching what the Nets actually do suggests there\u2019s nothing seismic imminent.<\/p>\n
Johnson had missed six straight games with an ankle injury while he was simultaneously being linked in trade rumors. <\/p>\n
But after Johnson told The Post that he\u2019d been confident Marks would come to him if anything was brewing, he played for the first time since Jan. 21.<\/p>\n
That return was a sure sign of him not being moved.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s great to have [Johnson],\u201d Fernandez said. \u201cIt is always great to have him whenever we\u2019ve had the chance to have him in the lineup, for obvious reasons. Leadership in the right way, he creates attention, he makes everyone\u2019s life easier; not just his teammates but also me. So it\u2019s great to have him, great connector, great leader.\u201d<\/p>\n
If the Nets intended to move Johnson or were seriously considering an offer, it\u2019s unlikely they would have played him against the Wizards \u2014 especially after he had missed 15 of the prior 18 games and had a viable excuse to sit.<\/p>\n
Claxton even started Tuesday\u2019s win over the Rockets despite a broken nose suffered in the previous game in Houston, and Sharpe was available despite being questionable with a hamstring injury.<\/p>\n
Claxton said these Nets haven\u2019t been distracted at all by the trade talk.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf you look at it like a lot of people play right now, they have nothing to lose. So we\u2019re just going out and just playing as hard as we can because we don\u2019t have [anything] to lose,\u201d Claxton said. \u201cIt\u2019s a golden opportunity for a lot of players and they\u2019re doing a great job taking advantage of it. So that\u2019s where we are with it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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