Nets following potential sale, focused on season
No one on the New Jersey Nets was preoccupied Tuesday with what might happen next season if Russian tycoon Mikhail Prokhorov buys the team and moves it to Brooklyn.
No one on the New Jersey Nets was preoccupied Tuesday with what might happen next season if Russian tycoon Mikhail Prokhorov buys the team and moves it to Brooklyn.
*Yawn* If they don’t make any other significant pickups during the offseason, they have to pray that Wade can play lights-out again next season and that both Beasley and Chalmers make significant jumps this season.
Prokhorov final piece of puzzle, says Ratner New Jersey Nets owner Bruce Ratner, left, poses for pictures with Vince Carter and team president Rod Thorn in a December 2004 photo.
Then next year, watch out. “We definitely want to be a team that can compete for the championship.
Russian billionaire tycoon Mikhail Prokhorov is interested in funding the Nets’ Atlantic Yards area project and possibly taking over the team.
Along with Dirk Nowitzki , Antawn Jamison , Mike Bibby , and Michael Olowokandi, the 1998 NBA draft featured Vince Carter and Paul Pierce .
Nets forward Yi Jianlian will not miss the team’s regular season opener to compete in the Chinese National Games, according to team president Rod Thorn.
The basketball coverage crew at the Orlando Sentinel has put together its preseason NBA power rankings, complete with predictions we have no business making in September.
Want to know who’s heating up for a big season on the hardwood? Insider is tapping into John Hollinger’s projected player efficiency ratings to see who’s trending up and down across the NBA.
Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Great, Single Page Jameer Nelson There is no question the Orlando Magic are in win-now mode.
Devin Harris chatted with the media types today, discussing everything Nets, about style , to strengths to weaknesses .
Roy Halladay has been noticeably distant lately. Not from the media or the team , but from the old Roy Halladay.
Devin Harris, left, says the trade of Vince Carter, shown with him last season, made sense with the way the Nets were trying to get younger.
August 31, 2009 - New York, NY - While Yonkers may not be the first place that enters the mind when thinking of a major hip hop movement, DJ Scoob Doo and Jadakiss are hoping to be the ones to change that mentality.