Al-Farouq Aminu finds his stroke from downtown as Blazers down Nets

Portland Trail Blazers forward Al-Farouq Aminu scored 23 points with six rebounds, one assist and five 3-pointers in 32 minutes against the Brooklyn Nets on Saturday.

What It Means:

The Blazers were playing the Nets with Brooklyn coming off a game the night before, but Aminu's impressive shooting performance is still very noteworthy. He has been great since returning from his knee injury and is working his way back into fantasy relevance.

Aminu is averaging 8.8 points, 7.3 rebounds, 2.0 assists and 1.0 steals over 29.1 minutes per game. He has a .460 effective field goal percentage and his nERD of -3.2 ranks 438th in the league.