Rookies Drake Powell and Ben Saraf were nowhere to be found at Tuesday’s Nets practice. Instead, they were a few miles East at Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum, getting G League minutes in Long Island’s 112–107 loss to the College Park Skyhawks.

For Powell, now a regular in the Nets’ rotation, it marked his first G League appearance. Saraf, meanwhile, returned to a setting he knows well, heading back to Long Island for the first time since mid-November to get needed reps during Brooklyn’s extended layoff before Friday’s matchup with the Dallas Mavericks.

Both rookies continued to show flashes. Powell scored just eight points, most of them at the free throw line, but grabbed seven rebounds and handed out five assists as Brooklyn keeps pushing him to grow into a more complete wing. Sar

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