Nets’ Nic Claxton to undergo MRI exam after suffering pinkie injury

Nic Claxton suffered a finger injury in the Nets’ 130-126 double overtime loss to the Celtics on Friday night, and is slated to have imaging Saturday.

Brooklyn’s center hurt his right pinkie, leaving the game before returning to finish with 18 points, nine rebounds, four assists and two blocks in 39 minutes.

“It’s sore. I really don’t know. I’ve just got to get X-rays, MRIs. So I don’t know,” Claxton said. “It is sore though. It was just locking up, so I just put some tape on it. I’ll know more (Saturday) probably.”

It’s uncertain exactly how much clarity Claxton or Brooklyn will get.

Claxton is tentatively slated for imaging Saturday morning in New York, with the team flying to California at midday. There is a chance he could get imaging once they arrive.

Either way, results won’t immediately be available.

The Nets start a five-game road trip with Sunday’s game at the Clippers.

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If Claxton can’t play, Day’Ron Sharpe likely would get his fourth start of the season.

Michael Porter Jr. had 30 points and eight rebounds in a bounce-back effort after Wednesday’s horrible outing vs. the Knicks.

The forward had shot just 41.4 percent overall and 33.3 percent from deep in eight games since spraining his MCL vs. Orlando.

“Yeah, I think it’s turning a corner,” Porter said. “The last eight or nine games, ever since that Orlando game, I’ve not felt as explosive on my cuts and stuff. So I feel like I’ve dropped off a little bit. But that’s mostly just because of that knee soreness.

“But the good thing was that it was nothing that I couldn’t play through, no structural. It wasn’t unsafe to play, it was just a little sore. So I decided to play through it, not rest it; and I’m just getting back feeling like it’s a non-issue. It felt the best it has; so I think by the next game or two, it’ll be back to 100%.”

Cam Thomas, arguably Brooklyn’s best bucket-getter, suddenly can’t buy a basket. He had seven points on 2-for-8 shooting Friday, and 0-for-2 from deep.

In his last eight games, Thomas is averaging 8.9 points on 29.8 percent from the floor and 27.3 from behind the arc in 22 minutes for a minus-6.9.

But he said he’s perfectly healthy, that he’s just doing what’s being asked.

“I’m playmaking. They wanted to see playmaking,” Thomas said. “I’m coming off the bench. You take what you can get.”

Jordi Fernández on Egor Dëmin and fellow teen Real Madrid product Hugo Gonzalez: “We all know how big international basketball is in the NBA. … The NBA is not looking at your passport, which is a good thing, especially nowadays. You are welcome, and you can grow in this league.”

Dëmin logged just 21:05 to Nolan Traore’s 36:51, but Fernández said the former wasn’t being ‘punished.’