Can Rondae Hollis-Jefferson bring flair — and defense — to Brooklyn?
Nets begin roster cuts, waive three players
The Brooklyn Nets have waived Ryan Boatright, Chris Daniels, and Quincy Miller, the team announced today. The team’s roster now stands at 17 players, with two more cuts needed prior to opening night. That leaves Justin Harper, Dahntay Jones, and Donald Sloan fighting for the last spot, barring another move. (Sloan has a small, partial […]
Who will make the last Nets roster spot?
Another preseason has come and gone, and the Nets have decisions to make. The team currently has 14 players on partially or fully guaranteed contracts: Andrea Bargnani, Bojan Bogdanovic, Markel Brown, Wayne Ellington, Rondae Hollis-Jefferson, Jarrett Jack, Joe Johnson, Sergey Karasev, Shane Larkin, Brook Lopez, Chris McCullough, Willie Reed, Thomas Robinson, and Thaddeus Young. An […]
CARMELO doesn’t make the Nets look good
Ever looked at a team roster and said to yourself, “this is interesting, but how can I project the performance of these players into 2022?” Well, have no fear: now you can. ESPN’s stats-driven 538 developed a formula called CARMELO, backronymed into “Career-Arc Regression Model Estimator with Local Optimization,” to predict future performance for current […]
Nets beat Pistons 93-83 in non-televised preseason game
You may not have seen it, but the Brooklyn Nets won their Thursday night preseason game over the Detroit Pistons 93-83 at the Palace at Auburn Hills in Detroit, pushing their preseason record up to a robust 1-1. There was no TV or radio broadcast of the game, but here’s the skinny: Nine Nets players […]
With NINE Nets out, guys on camp deals get their shot tonight
You probably won’t see the floor for tonight’s Nets-Pistons game, but that’s okay, because nine Nets players aren’t either. The team announced Thursday morning that (deep breath) Andrea Bargnani, Bojan Bogdanovic, Markel Brown, Jarrett Jack, Joe Johnson, Sergey Karasev, Willie Reed, and Thomas Robinson (long exhale) will sit out the night’s contest. Along with the […]
Andrea Bargnani, Markel Brown OUT vs. Fenerbahce
The Nets didn’t make it out of training camp unscathed, and they’ll rest four players in their first preseason game back. Andrea Bargnani (tight left hamstring), Markel Brown (left oblique strain), Willie Reed (right quad strain), and Chris McCullough (right knee rehab) will all sit out against Fenerbahce Ulker Monday night. McCullough is not expected […]
Around the Nets, where Andrea Bargnani makes a weird face
Here’s the latest Nets news & notes from around the ‘net: The Italian men’s national basketball team, led in part by Brooklyn Nets center Andrea Bargnani picked up a key 89-82 victory over Germany yesterday in FIBA Eurobasket, improving to 3-1 in Group B. (Highlights here.) Though Danilo Gallinari stole the show and Bargnani fouled […]
Dahntay Jones, Nets agree to non-guaranteed deal
The Brooklyn Nets have added one more player to their training camp roster: Dahntay Jones. Jones, 34, and the Nets agreed to a non-guaranteed deal, according to Adrian Wojnarowski of Yahoo! Sports. Jones played 33 games last season for the Los Angeles Clippers. He averaged 0.6 points in 3.7 minutes per game, but got into […]
Rondae Hollis-Jefferson voted top defender, funniest among rookies
If you trust the scouting ability of NBA rookies, the Nets got a pretty good pickup in Rondae Hollis-Jefferson — both on and off the court. In NBA.com’s annual rookie survey, new Nets wing was the top vote-getter for two categories: “Best Defender” (23.5 percent) and “Funniest” (44.3 percent). Hollis-Jefferson also picked up votes for […]
The Nets didn’t have a good offseason, but they had a necessary one
Despite Mikhail Prokhorov’s overtures, the Brooklyn Nets got worse this offseason. The gulf from Deron Williams to Jarrett Jack is massive unless Jack takes an unprecedented leap forward in impact at 31 years old, and Jack’s new role as Brook Lopez’s chef & waiter will test a guard who averaged a career-high 3.1 turnovers per […]
The danger for the Nets in 2016 free agency
Barring the type of Grand & Unexpected Wild Offseason Move the team trademarked between 2011 and 2014, this year’s Brooklyn Nets roster is close to set. Thirteen players are on guaranteed contracts, with at least four more vying for the final two spots out of Nets training camp. The Nets don’t look primed to make […]
