SALT LAKE CITY — Brooklyn Nets guard Egor Demin made a 3-pointer in an NBA rookie-record 34th straight game in Friday night’s 106-99 win against the Utah Jazz.
Demin set the record on the first basket for the Nets. He finished with a team-best 25 points, and he was 6-for-12 from three-point range.
“There’s a reason why we drafted him,” Brooklyn coach Jordie Fernandez said. “We believed that [his] shooting was NBA shooting and he’s proven it from the beginning.”
Demin entered Friday’s win tied with Portland’s Rudy Fernandez (2008-09) and Philadelphia’s Landry Shamet (2018-19).
“You see the confidence growing on him,” Nets center Day’ron Sharpe said. “Who knows what Egor can be in the next couple of years?”
Drafted 8th overall out of BYU last year, Demin said extra hours spent on refining his shooting helped him become a reliable perimeter threat.
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The milestone represents a major leap forward from Demin’s one season at BYU where he shot just 27.3% from the perimeter. While Demin struggled to find his shot at times while playing in Provo, he credited BYU coach Kevin Young with helping him find success as a rookie.
“He’s an NBA coach, so he taught me — in this one year — basically whatever I have to know to be able to play at the NBA level,” Demin said. “He gave us a lot of knowledge so that I come here and I’m ready to play and I know what we’re doing and I have an idea of what it is. He gave me this base of an NBA player to be able to come here and know what’s going on around me.”
Demin has another record withing reach. He has made the second-most 3s for a rookie in Nets’ history, trailing only Kerry Kittles’ 158 3-pointers in the 1996-97 season.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
