New Jersey Nets

The Nets Fizzle and Disappoint -- Who's to Blame?

Anyone can lose a basketball game, but when you lose one like the Nets lost Saturday night -- the 7th game of a playoff series at home to a team playing without key players -- there has to be consequences. All year long the Nets had been battling the Knicks for media attention and fan adulation, an ... More >>

New York Post Columnist Phil Mushnick On Jay-Z, "Bitches," "Hoes," And The "New York N-----s" *UPDATED*

UPDATE: Mushnick sent us an explanation of his offensive column. You can read it by clicking here.Not exactly sure where to start with this one, so we'll just come out and say it: New York Post columnist Phil Mushnick used his Equal Time column this morning to suggest that the Brooklyn Nets should c ... More >>

The Nets Left New Jersey Last Night After 35 Years, With A Loss, Of Course

Last night marked the final home game of the New Jersey Nets, and although the franchise won't officially become the Brooklyn Nets until the beginning of the 2012-2013 NBA season (when they move from the Prudential Center to the Barclay Center), it's obvious those involved with the team couldn't lea ... More >>

The Islanders Are Coming! The Islanders Are Coming!

​Things have been mostly quiet on the New York Islanders arena front since their public vote for a new home in the 516 crashed and burned spectacularly last summer. That all changed yesterday afternoon, however, with the announcement that the team has scheduled an exhibition game against the D ... More >>

Brooklyn Nets Set To Go All Disney On Their Employees

​When you have to open an arena that seats a crowd of 18,000 skeptical New Yorkers, there's really only one person you can call to give you advice -- dear old Mickey Mouse. The House of Mouse entertains visitors with extreme robotic precision and that's what the Brooklyn Nets are looking to em ... More >>

Nets Outscore the Knicks on 'Melo's Big Night

​"Defense," Carmelo Anthony told reporters at his first New York press conference yesterday, "I want to really focus in on that. All that takes is a lot of effort. Once we get everyone to buy into that mentality, we're good to go." Thus the first superstar in a long time to choose New York man ... More >>

Sports Guy Bill Simmons Takes Swipe at Knicks Ruiner and 'Loser' James Dolan

​The list of Cablevision owner James Dolan's enemies is ever expanding: there are long-suffering, abused employees, any and all reporters, especially his own sports reporters, and extra-especially bloggers. And though the Voice -- Runnin' Scared in particular -- has had its disagreements with ... More >>

MSG Reno to Exile Liberty ... to Newark?

​Proving the old line that the best way to find real news in the Times is to read the stories end-to-beginning, the Paper of Record offers up a classic buried lede in its article today about the upcoming renovations to Madison Square Garden. Round about the sixth paragraph, sportswriter Richar ... More >>

Jayson Williams Gets 5 Years in Shooting Death. Warning: He's Eligible for Parole in 18 Months

Jayson Williams, the former New Jersey Nets basketball star who killed his limo driver with a shotgun in 2002 and then tried to cover it up, was sentenced today to five years in prison. But under a plea deal with New Jersey prosecutors, he'll be eligible for parole in only 18 months. It can't be co ... More >>

As Atlantic Yards Gets Pricier, How Much Red Ink Can Ratner Absorb?

​Uberdeveloper-turned-Nets-owner Bruce Ratner better have some good meds, because this is rapidly shaping up to be a month of rapid mood swings for him and his Atlantic Yards project. While Tuesday's granting of a desperately needed investment-grade rating for the Nets arena bonds must have be ... More >>

Meadowlands to Swap Nets to Newark for Concerts?

​Rumors of the Nets moving to Newark to join the Devils are as old as Jason Kidd's knees, but hoops-by-the-Ironbound may finally be a reality, as early as next season. After the Newark Star-Ledger reported yesterday that unnamed team sources were saying the Nets would consider a temporary relo ... More >>

HOOP DREAMS

Well, Knicks and Nets fans can always hope

IBO Report: Atlantic Yards to Cost City Big, Rain Cash on Ratner

​This just hasn't been a good week for Bruce Ratner, the Nets owner who'd rather be the Nets' landlord. First, he unveils a new vision of his much-derided Atlantic Yards arena plan — now with more metal mesh! — and gets slammed by Times architecture critic Nicolai Ouroussoff for cr ... More >>

Getting Old's a Bitch in Gotta Dance

Atlantic Yards Foes Say Nets Not Much of a Draw

SLAM DUNK

Where to see the Knicks if you don’t want to go to Jersey

Grim Signs for Brooklyn Nets from Media, Spike Lee

Mystery of Stadium Funds Continues

Bloomberg Adding $226 Million for Nets, Mets, Yanks?

Nothing Says "Brooklyn Basketball" Like... A British Banking Conglomerate

The Jason Kidd Saga: What's a Nets Fan Supposed to Do?

Arena Watch

Websites That Explain How the New Nets Stadium Might Affect You

The Man Who Would Be Kings

Wannabe 'Brooklyn Nets' Owner Ratner Already Is a Man for All Subsidies

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Swamped by Success

Dazed Net Fan Wonders, 'Can This Be Happening?'

The Foreign Invasion of the American Game

Euro: New Currency of the NBA

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Another Roll of the McDyess

The Blurry Vision Thing

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A Year of Self-Parity

Who's Best? Who's the Underdog? When Anybody Can Win, Who Can Tell?

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Karmic Relief

Remember When the Knicks Were Good? Even Fairly Good?

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Hoop Dreams

Imagine It: Tim Duncan as a Net, and LeBron James as a Knick

The Gulp War

So How Good Are the Nets? We'll Find Out.

Here's Looking at You, Kidd

Just Give Him the Damn Ball!

Beauty and the East

Can the Nets Survive a Bashing by the Ugly Stick of Playoff Ball?

Taking a Bite out of the Hot Dog

Marbury Played Like He Was From Boise Instead of Brooklyn

That Other NBA Team

Nobody's Watching, but the Nets Are Winning

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Net-Zero at the Half

Still Stuck in the Swamps of Jersey

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No Respect

Mild Manners, Wild Numbers Aren’t Enough for Stephon Marbury

A Season on the Brink

With Stephon Marbury, The Nets are on the verge of greatness . . . again

Hurting The Game

An increase in injuries has diminished the NBA

Nice Guys Finish Where?

The Nets are out to earn wins, not respect

All Eyez On Spre

Latrell Sprewell brings his raw aesthetic to the New York Knicks

Quiz Show

Fans drop beer and pick up pencils to find out who's best