The Brooklyn Nets have announced the hiring of five new front office additions — including a cap and contract specialist, a strategic planning coordinator, and a couple of scouts. On the heels of signing Kenny Atkinson, the Atlanta Hawks’ current assistant coach, general manager Sean Marks continues to build out the evolving organization. You can read […]
Kenny Atkinson will dive into his first head coaching job with the Nets as soon as the Hawks season concludes, but he’ll have at least one former head coach on his bench with him.
Pearl Washington, the Brooklyn native who played two of his three NBA seasons with the New Jersey Nets, has passed away, according to his family (via ESPN). Today we mourn the loss of Pearl Washington. Our thoughts and prayers are with his family and friends. — Brooklyn Nets (@BrooklynNets) April 20, 2016 Washington was drafted […]
The Nets (15-40) got back to business on the court on Friday, beating the crosstown rival New York Knicks 109-98 at Barclays Center. Brook Lopez picked up right where he left off scoring a season-high 33 points along with eight rebounds and four blocks. Bojan Bogdanovic, as he did in the January 13th win over […]
You don’t get too many reminders of the Stephen Jackson era in Nets history, so let’s enjoy this one while we can. Jackson played just the 2000-2001 season with the then-New Jersey Nets under Byron Scott, who’s now the coach of the Los Angeles Lakers. 120 Sports asked Jackson about Scott’s public comments about Lakers […]
Here’s the latest Nets news and notes from around the ‘nets: A brazen Shane Larkin reportedly marched into the front office and said he was disappointed in his performance. The next game, Larkin played his most minutes since he started for the injured Jarrett Jack on opening night, hit three three-pointers, and the Nets won. […]
Periodically, we’ll check in on the status of how bad things are here, in honor of Joe Johnson’s priceless preseason quote. Statistical support throughout provided by NBA.com. This has been ugly. You won’t hear anything else, anywhere. The Nets haven’t won a game since April, they’ve collapsed down the stretch in their few winnable moments, […]
OK, this is a pretty tough one. Can you name each player who was on the Nets opening night starting lineup in the last decade? That doesn’t mean who started the most in a season, just who started first. Here, I’ll start you off with a freebie: remember Joe Smith? Probably not. But the #1 […]
Former Nets assistant general manager Bobby Marks discussed his rise from the New Jersey Nets public relations department into an assistant GM role, some of his old Nets stories, and the NBA at large on the Dunc’d On Podcast with Nate Duncan late Thursday. Marks has enjoyed a bit of a rise on social media […]
For two seasons, Tyshawn Taylor languished at the end of the Brooklyn Nets bench, getting more publicity for facilitating Jason Kidd’s soda spill than anything else he did in a Nets uniform. After leaving the Nets, Taylor spent time playing in Russia and Puerto Rico. Now, he’s trying to help a different New York City […]
The Brooklyn Nets and Memphis Grizzlies reportedly discussed a trade scenario that would send Joe Johnson to the Grizzlies, according to Marc Stein of ESPN: Story going online now: ESPN sources say Nets and Grizzlies recently discussed a Joe Johnson-to-Memphis trade — Marc Stein (@ESPNSteinLine) June 29, 2015 Sources say teams could not find workable […]
Can you name the 12 players that played for the New Jersey Nets in the playoffs during their last trip to the NBA Finals? Take the quiz above to test your knowledge.
