Around The Nets: 10/14 Edition

Deron Williams is teaming up with ESPN New York to deliver his “Blog From Abroad,” detailing his experiences in Turkey. In the first edition, D-Will talks Turkish culture, family, assimilation, and his exploding Xbox.

Speaking of which, we’re now at the top 15 of ESPN.com’s #NBARank, and D-Will is yet unranked.

Jordan Farmar scored 9 points (4-11 from the field) and dished out 4 assists in a 78-74 victory over Hapoel Jerusalem. According to viewer Noam Schiller, it was his worst game in a Maccabi uniform, a byproduct of calling his own number too much. Sounds familiar.

Despite leaving the Right Cause Party (which split soon after), Mikhail Prokhorov says he’s not done with politics just yet.

Some video of Bojan Bogdanovic doing a little of everything. Check out that guy’s uploads for more of BoBo, Deron, Sasha, et al.

On WFAN yesterday, David Stern talked some of the parameters of the latest owners’ proposal. One big piece: teams would be able to offer free agents from other teams 3-year contracts, their own free agents 4-year contracts, and a “designated star” a 5-year contract. That’d give Deron Williams all the incentive in the world to remain in New Jersey – two extra years at a presumably increasing salary is a lot of money to leave on the table. Unfortunately, it’s also a lot of money for Dwight Howard to leave in Orlando.

Another takeaway from the Stern interview, a new proposal from the owners regarding amnesty: if a team wants to waive a player, they’d have the option of spreading his contract over double its duration. So say the Nets wanted to waive, say, Travis Outlaw, they’d pay him $3.5 million per year for eight years, as opposed to $7 million per year for four. It’d count against the cap that way, too. I’d prefer just a pure amnesty clause where the contract must be paid, but is completely off the books.

Stefan Bondy goes a little more in detail about the effect of the owner’s proposal on the Nets.

Off-topic, but holy Rondo.