Cam Johnson returned from a five-game absence and scored 24 points in the Brooklyn Nets' victory over the Portland Trail Blazers.

Ben Simmons' playing status is uncertain entering Wednesday's matchup between the Nets and Pistons at Barclays Center.

On a night without Thomas due to a new hamstring injury as well as Cam Johnson (right ankle sprain) and Ben Simmons (left calf soreness), the 22-year-old shooting guard was deployed at point guard after D’Angelo Russell took a hit to the shin in the first half and sat out the rest of the game.

The Nets steamrolled lottery rival Portland 132-114 in a wire-to-wire rout Tuesday night at Moda Center, their most lopsided victory of the season. Was it Pyrrhic? Possibly. Was it

Already decimated by injuries, the Brooklyn Nets may lose another key contributor heading into the midway point of their six-game road trip. Ben Simmons, who h

Cam Johnson and D'Angelo Russell have a chance to return from extended absences during Tuesday's Nets-Trail Blazers matchup.

Simmons (calf) has been downgraded to doubtful for Wednesday's game against the Pistons, C.J. Holmes of the New York Daily News reports. The Nets are going to be very shorthanded Wednesday, and just recently announced that Day'Ron Sharpe is questionable with an illness.

(AP) — Cam Johnson returned from a five-game absence ... for the Blazers. Nets guard Ben Simmons, whose status was uncertain because of lower back injury management and a sore left knee, started ...