Around the Nets Friday: No More Coaches, No More Playbooks

Some snippets of Billy King‘s interview with Ian Eagle, broadcast on YES before the Nets-Raptors game. “(If Dwight Howard‘s available), we’ll be ready.”

The final basket in New Jersey Nets history: a 20-foot jumper by Johan Petro. The final shot attempt ever in New Jersey: a 20-foot brick by Johan Petro. Petro says he wasn’t even thinking about the “whole history” behind it. Sure.

Gerald Wallace says he needs to “figure things out” with his agent, and that he’ll “hopefully” come to a decision within a week.

Ex-Nets point guard Ben Uzoh dropped a triple-double last night. But if you were watching the Nets game, you knew that already.

Kind of cool that the league has broken (and thus reset) its own record for minority coaches.

After 67 games and another visit to the Barclays Center, Deron Williams is feeling pretty good about Brooklyn.

Two things: 1) Do not expect the leaked Brooklyn Nets logo to be the only Brooklyn Nets logo, and 2) do not expect Sly the Fox to join them in Brooklyn.

(Bonus story: As a young’n at a Nets game, Sly ran up to my upper-level section, and as I held my hands outstretched, excited to high-five the mascot I adored, Sly used my cranium as a stepping stone, thrusting his palm down on my skull to propel himself two rows above me. I never forgave Sly for that. I take his imminent demise as the team taking proper retribution.)

Overheard on the radio this morning: of the 2,000 jobs created by the Barclays Center, a projected 1,900 of them are expected to be part-time. The arena’s also expected to look in the neighborhood for workers, particularly in public housing projects.

“At least they knew how to lose.”

Speaking of losing, the Charlotte Bobcats ended the season with a 7-59 record, ranking by percentage as the worst season in NBA. Having seen the Bobcats on a few occasions, I can say with certainty that the 2009-10 New Jersey Nets would have smoked them.

Bob MacKinnon: “thrilled” after his first season.