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Tick, Tick, Tick - Time Running Short for the Nets
The Nets have to win one-fourth of their final 12 games, knowing they've only won one-tenth of the first 70. The Nets have to prove they are not, in Bill Parcells famous line, what their record says they are: the worst team ever to wear an NBA uniform. The national media is now on the case. USA...
Measuring Kris Humphries
The numbers on Kris Humphries are encouraging, if not overwhelming. If ever there was a player who fit the description of "fallen angel", it's him. Entering the NBA at age 19 after a single season at Minnesota, Humphries thrilled the numbers geeks at the Pre-Draft Camp in 2004. He was the camp's...
How Big a Deal is Yi's Development?
Yi Jianlian’s development has the potential to change everything. An exaggeration? Probably. A hope? No doubt. The addition of a legitimate fourth building block, beyond Devin Harris, Brook Lopez and Courtney Lee, could effect the draft, free agency, and the Nets' long-term finances, as well...
Highlights - Frank Coverage
Nets guard Chris Douglas-Roberts knew something was up when he entered the meeting room at the team hotel Sunday morning and didn't see Lawrence Frank standing in front wearing his usual Nets T-shirt and Nets track pants. Douglas-Roberts and his teammates knew Frank was no longer their head coach...
10 Questions for 2009-10?
1. DEE-fense? Devin Harris says it's his top priority: returning to that ballhawk Rod Thorn so loved when he traded Jason Kidd for him 20 months ago. Thorn loved Courtney Lee for the same reason. Will he bring it as well? Then there's the bigs: Brook Lopez promises he will emulate his brother,...
Nets vs. Knicks – Cap Space
"We currently have the most cap space available of any team.’’ --Kiki Vandeweghe, GM, New Jersey Nets, October 11, 2009 "We have the most room in the league. That's good. We're No. 1." --Donnie Walsh, GM, New York Knicks, September 26, 2009 So who's right? Firstf of all, it's highly unlikely that...
If I Were a Rich Man…
When Mikhail Prokhorov becomes principal owner of the Nets--we're no longer saying if, the team’s fortunes will change. That’s a no-brainer, but how? A lot has been written about how a Prokhorov-owned Nets team would immediately be the front runner for Lebron James’ services, perhaps even a...
Basketball News!
Buried in the avalanche of news about the team’s sale was a lot of basketball news that didn’t get much attention. So we’ve pulled some of the best quotes and tried organizing them. On 2009-10: Rod Thorn: "We don’t look that strong on paper, but we will be better than a lot of the pundits think...
NetsDaily Off-Season Report #24
Every Sunday, we’ll be updating the Nets’ off-season with bits and pieces of information, gossip, etc. to help take the edge off missing the playoffs, relying on the Nets’ beat reporters and others who have slipped interesting stuff into larger stories and blogs. Red Dawn Twenty three weeks of...
NetsDaily Off-Season Report #21
Every Sunday, we’ll be updating the Nets’ off-season with bits and pieces of information, gossip, etc. to help take the edge off missing the playoffs, relying on the Nets’ beat reporters and others who have slipped interesting stuff into larger stories and blogs. Twill at the Point Nothing has...
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