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#brooklyn-nets

"Sharing this tradition that I've experienced all my life is important to me and my family. But I also think sharing love, which is represented by the rose, and it's International Book Day as well, so exchanging books is also important. Sharing with the community, coming to the school, giving books to the kids, so hopefully we'll make it a bigger event every year..."

The Lakers have entered the game as favorites 44 times this season and won 34, or 77.3%, of those games. They score 116.6 points per game, slightly more than the 115.7 points the Nets allow.

Right now, he's not good to go. We'll see what the next step is. It's important that we manage them. As rookies, they come in, and usually when they do a lot of draft workouts their summer is not perfect because they go through a lot. It's almost like they're missing a summer. They do play summer league, but it's not a real summer. Then you get into training camp, and it feels like you go into playing right away.

It's like asking a bunch of kids, who are just learning how to swim, to make sure the other one doesn't drown. That's the tightrope Jordi Fernández has walked as the Nets push through the final stretch of a season that has gone sideways in the standings, even as the organization stays committed to a development plan built for patience.

The jumper gives Brooklyn spacing, and it gives Démin a base to build on. But the next step is the one that changes how defenses treat him. It's not another layer of shot-making. It's learning how to consistently get into the paint and get to where he wants to go on the floor, on his terms, against NBA bodies and NBA game plans.