The New Jersey Nets are off to another rip-roaring season, and the season hasn’t even started yet! Not only are they still the Nets, but they just lost their starting center for the foreseeable future. According to Colin Stephenson of the Newark Star-Ledger, Brook Lopez has a stress fracture in his foot. “Brook Lopez has [...]
In a move that would surely violate the NBA’s tampering rules, the New Jersey Nets met with Orlando Magic center Dwight Howard in Miami, according to sources. ESPN’s Chris Broussard says that multiple sources told him that the meeting did indeed take place, despite the expected denials from Howard. “There was no meeting,” Howard said [...]
We have passed on ass tons of rumors regarding potential trades for Denver Nuggets forward Carmelo Anthony. We’re sick of it. So, when we saw a trade rumor that didn’t involve Melo, we got all excited. Sources tell the Bergen Record that the New Jersey Nets and Portland Trailblazers have exchanged proposals regarding Devin Harris. [...]
Look, we mentioned before that this story is really starting to irritate us and now it’s getting worse. There have been so many rumors and reports about Carmelo Anthony and will he be traded to the Lakers or will he be traded to the Nets or will he only sign an extension with the Knicks [...]
Honestly, I’m tired of typing these stupid rumors. We pass along rumors on big stories all the time, but this is getting out of hand. It seems that once every so many weeks, we hear about the New Jersey Nets getting close to trading for Carmelo Anthony. Now, we are told that it’s really close [...]
As the February 24th trade deadline slowly approaches, the talks between the Nuggets and whoever wants the services of All-Star forward Carmelo Anthony are getting more and more ridiculous. Specifically, the talks with the New Jersey Nets. PHOTO CAPTION: After taco night, Melo’s teammates request he sits away from the team Adrian Wojnarowski of Yahoo! [...]
Sources tell Yahoo! Sports‘ Adrian Wojnarowski that the Denver Nuggets and New Jersey Nets are at it again. They are once again attempting to figure out a multi-team deal that would send Carmelo Anthony to the Nets. The sources say that Anthony is inclined to accept a trade and sign an extension with New Jersey [...]
In a breaking story, that means absolutely nothing, ESPN.com is reporting that Carmelo Anthony is no longer being actively pursued by the Nets, according to NBA front-office sources. Why does this mean absolutely nothing? Well, in the same story ESPN also states that the trade could be revived or that the Nets will construct another [...]
We love the information we get from Yahoo! Sports basketball insider Adrian Wojnarowski, but we really do hate typing his name. It is not easy to remember. But anyway, sources tell him that the New Jersey Nets are in talks to acquire Carmelo Anthony from the Denver Nuggets. It’s expected to be a multiple-team deal, [...]
Carmelo Anthony has made it pretty clear that he isn’t interested in playing for the Denver Nuggets beyond this year. He has had a three-year, $65 million contract extension on the table for months now, and he hardly seems to be even considering it. But, for a while now, the Nuggets seem to be immune [...]
Boy, this went south quickly, huh? After a Sunday meeting with owner-in-waiting Josh Kroenke in which Carmelo Anthony seemed insistent that he be traded, several sources tell Adrian Wojnarowski (we wish he’s stop breaking stories. It is a pain in the ace to spell his name) of Yahoo! Sports that it’s not if, but when. [...]
The new owner of the New Jersey Nets, Mikhail Prokhorov, obviously watches a lot of NBA basketball. The latest evidence that this guy knows exactly what he’s doing? He hired former Philadelphia 76ers GM Billy King to be his new general manager. He has all of the qualities we’ve been looking for in a candidate: [...]
Lebron James has decided to throw himself a free-agency party in Northeastern Ohio and will be inviting all of his potential suitors. Usually, free agents do the visiting and are taken on tours of the cities by the teams that are trying to recruit them. Not Lebron, the ringless NBA star has no time for normalities. He is the King [...]
On July 1st the LeBron James sweepstakes officially begins. He is expected to field offers from the Cleveland Cavaliers, Los Angeles Clippers, New York Knicks, New Jersey Nets and Chicago Bulls. But, an unnamed NBA team executive tells the New York Times that you can pretty much consider LeBron a Chicago Bull. The Times writes [...]
League sources tell Yahoo! Sports’ Adrian Wojnarowski that LeBron James is planning on meeting with six teams in Ohio during the first few days of free agency. He is told that Jay-Z and the New Jersey Nets will be the first team to meet with him. James and his crew are expected to get presentations [...]
A source close to the situation tells ESPN.com that the New Jersey Nets and ESPN analyst Avery Johnson have agreed to a deal that will make him their next head coach. Johnson was dismissed as head coach of the Dallas Mavericks after the 2007-2008 season. He took them to the NBA Finals in 2006 and [...]
New Jersey Nets freshly-crowned owner Mikhail Prokhorov might be changing the nickname of the team he just purchased. During a private brunch meeting at the Four Seasons Hotel in Manhattan, Prokhorov had this to say to reporters, “Let me ask you some questions. What about the name of the team? Is it okay, the Nets? Or [...]
An old lady, a Russian, and a Jru walk into a bar with three sealed envelopes. One of the envelopes contains the rights to the number one pick in the 2010 NBA Draft. Who has the winning envelope? If you think it’s the Jru, you’re wrong. And it’s not the Russian. PHOTO CAPTION: Jru Holiday [...]
Russian gazillionaire Mikhail Prokhorov, who thought the Nets were actually a hockey team, was finally able to get his deal approved by the NBA to purchase the New Jersey basketball team. PHOTO CAPTION: Whether you’re worth a billion dollars or not, you still have to keep stupid things your kid made on your desk. Seriously, [...]
Miami Heat fans could not have been happy with the turn of events that happened on Wednesday. First, Amare Stoudemire was told by the Phoenix Suns that he won’t be dealt. Second, six-time All-Star Dwyane Wade went down with a calf injury Wednesday night. Third, Wade’s teammate Jermaine O’Neal strained his back and also left [...]
The Record reported last week that the New Jersey Nets’ number one target for a possible coach and/or general manager for next year was Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski. PHOTO CAPTION: Coach K has a great coaching strategy, yelling at the refs to get his way On Saturday, Coach K addressed the rumors. “The guy’s Russian, [...]
New Jersey Net’s president Rod Thorn is in the final year of his contract and is hoping to sign a new contract with owner-in-waiting Mikhail Prokhorov early next week to stay with the Nets. Thorn has been with the Nets since June 2, 2000 and was named NBA Executive of the Year in 2002 after [...]
If it wasn’t for all the money he is making, New Jersey Nets guard Devin Harris would probably be the most miserable person in the world. A very talented player, Harris is stuck on one of the worst teams in NBA history and is injured on top of that. As such, it looks like he’s [...]
Golden State Warriors guard Stephen Curry went bombs away on the New Jersey Nets (who doesn’t?) Friday night with a career-career high 32 points on 11-of-21 shooting. He added four steals and three three-pointers in a full 48 minutes to prove once and for all that the Nets don’t belong in the NBA. We would [...]
We apologize for the crass headline, but we aren’t sure exactly else to put it. Former New Jersey Net Jayson Williams has been through a lot lately. He shot and killed a dude. Got banged up in a DUI incident. Normal stuff. But, we think this might be more embarrassing than all that. Apparently, Williams [...]