The Brooklyn Nets announced Friday the signing of 6-foot, 4-inch shooting guard Yakuba “Billy” Ouattara to a two-way contract. Ouattara, a 25-year-old player from Ghana, has spent the last four years playing for the French LNB Pro A league. The past season, playing for AS Monaco Basket, Ouattara averaged 11.8 points on 51.4 percent shooting and […]
Mikhail Prokhorov’s appearance on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Wednesday night, Brooklyn Nets owner Mikhail Prokhorov appeared on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert as a part of the show’s “Russia Week.” In the segment, Colbert visits Prokhorov at his house outside Moscow and talks being an oligarch, the Nets, Prokhorov’s lost yacht and fancy bologna. After a tour of the house, Prokhorov brings Colbert […]
Brooklyn Nets summer news roundup
With the draft, free agency, and now Summer League all more-or-less over, the most interesting portion of the NBA session (the offseason) is at an end. Before a weary nation shifts its sports attention almost exclusively to football come August, let us take a look at some Nets news before the white raven signaling the […]
Brooklyn Revolution Podcast: NBA Free Agency Week 2, Summer League Roundup
Brooklyn Revolution is a revolutionary podcast covering the Brooklyn Nets. On Episode 9, Sandy Mui and Jimmy Espinal recap the Nets’ second week of free agency and Summer League. The Brooklyn Nets finally struck out with Otto Porter Jr. last Saturday, but it didn’t take long for General Manager Sean Marks to make his first successful move by landing […]
Tackling the Justin Hamilton-DeMarre Carroll trade from all angles
It was made official Thursday that Sean Marks cut a deal that sent Justin Hamilton to the Toronto Raptors for DeMarre Carroll and two future picks. This deal could end up being more than a pure salary dump for both sides. This is the second largest salary that the Nets have absorbed over the past […]
Preview: Win or go home for the Summer Nets against Denver
Opponent: Denver Nuggets Time: 4:30 p.m. EST Location: Thomas & Mack Center, Las Vegas, Nev. Watch: ESPN 2 Boasting a 2-1 record in Summer League pool play, which includes a 95-66 rout of the Pelicans, Brooklyn enjoyed the spoils of its play as the team earned the No. 7 seed heading into the playoffs that […]
TBG Roundtable: Brooklyn Nets free agency, and what’s up next
After acquiring DeMarre Carroll, and with Kentavious Caldwell-Pope talks abound, The Brooklyn Game staff went roundtable to discuss free agency so far, what the Nets should do with their cap space and dark horse free agents still in the mix. Did the Nets make the right call to wait for the market to settle before […]
Brooklyn Revolution Podcast: 2017 NBA Free Agency, Week 1 Roundup
Brooklyn Revolution is a revolutionary podcast covering the Brooklyn Nets. On Episode 8, Sandy Mui and Alex Cuesta recap the Nets’ first week of free agency. The Brooklyn Nets appeared to have a more patient, systematic approach to the free agency market. After not making any moves on the first three days, the Nets struck an agreement with highly-coveted […]
Preview: Nets kick off Summer League vs Atlanta Hawks
Brooklyn Nets basketball is back! Kind of. The Nets will face off against the Atlanta Hawks in their first matchup of the Las Vegas Summer League Friday at 8 p.m. ET on NBA TV. The final score won’t mean a thing, but the Nets will get a look at the progression of their returning young players […]
DeShawn Stevenson talks Brook Lopez fights, Jay-Z and the Brooklyn Nets
The BIG3 basketball league debuted on June 25 at the home of the Brooklyn Nets, the Barclays Center. Several current and former Brooklyn (and New Jersey) Nets attended the inaugural event for the upstart league. Caris LeVert, Rondae Hollis-Jefferson, Archie Goodwin and Quincy Acy all attended. Newest Net D’Angelo Russell (fresh off being acquired in the […]
Money talks, and so does culture, for Brooklyn Nets in Otto Porter agreement
While most of America was reacting (or overreacting) to the “real” Gordon Hayward decision, or celebrating the day our Founding Fathers let freedom ring across the nation, the Brooklyn Nets finally dealt their first hand in free agency. It was heavily foreseen leading up to July, but on Tuesday night, the Nets and restricted free […]
Brooklyn Nets, Otto Porter agree to four year, max offer sheet
After three days of not making any moves in free agency, the Brooklyn Nets have reached a deal with restricted free agent Otto Porter. The news was broken by The Vertical’s Shams Charania, who laid out the specifics of the offer sheet, worth $106 million over four years. RFA Otto Porter has reached agreement on a four-year, […]
