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ESPN Insider Kevin Pelton came out with a great article today highlighting some possible sell-high trade candidates, as this season's deadline approaches. One such candidate on his list was All-Star center Brook Lopez, of your Brooklyn Nets.... Read More »

The Nets entered last night's game against the Pacers with losses in three of their previous four games and six of their last nine, the first slump the team had endured since interim coach P.J. Carlesimo took over for Avery Johnson in late... Read More »

When Nets general manager Billy King traded for Deron Williams two years ago, he proudly proclaimed he had the best point guard in the NBA. The Nets happily ponied up nearly $100 million dollars to sign Williams to a five-year max contract,... Read More »

As a young assistant coach at Fordham and, later, as head coach at Wagner College, then Seton Hall, P.J. Carlesimo made hundreds of recruiting trips to Brooklyn. He would visit Boys High School in Bedford-Stuyvesant; Erasmus High on Flatbush... Read More »

The Nets may trail the Knicks in the standings, but Charles Barkley said he still thinks Brooklyn is the team better suited to handle a deep playoff run. “I think that the Nets have a higher ceiling than this Knicks team," Barkley said as the... Read More »

The Nets wished a happy birthday (28) to Kris Humphries Wednesday. Will they be bidding him farewell next? The hints that the Nets are willing to move him have been cropping up in the last few days, the most recent (and most telling) from Fred... Read More »

There is one point about Nets center Brook Lopez that frequently gets lost. No, not his rebounding. That gets talked about a lot Many times unfairly. No, not his shooting. He is among the most accurate big men from any sort of distance. Go on.... Read More »

When Brook Lopez was out last season, Jeremy Bettle, the team's strength and conditioning coach, got him on a regimen to bulk up. It's worked. He weighed in at 280 pounds Saturday, 15 pounds more than he did his rookie season four years ago. It's... Read More »

Sam Amico of FOX Sports reports that the Nets have put Andray Blatche on the trading block, hoping for a draft pick in return. Amico says the Trail Blazers may have an interest in the 6'11" back-up center with a veterans minimum contract.... Read More »

The Brooklyn Nets are looking to make small upgrades before the playoffs and have identified Orlando Magic forward Hedo Türkoglu as a potential trade target before the February 21st trading deadline, said veteran NBA reporter Peter Vecsey on the... Read More »

Brook Lopez, the Nets' newly minted All-Star center, potentially will face a tough test during tomorrow night's high-profile game in Brooklyn against Dwight Howard and the star-studded Lakers. Howard missed the Lakers' game yesterday at Detroit... Read More »

How valuable would Bojan Bogdanovic be if the Nets decided to trade the 23-year-old? We asked a league source a month ago. He responded that the Nets believed the 6'8" swingman is a "lottery equivalent." Since then, Bogdanovic has taken off.... Read More »

Deron Williams is the Nets leader on the court, but is he their emotional leader as well? The answer is no, at least according to one of his teammates. As Stefan Bondy writes Sunday, Joe Johnson said Friday that the "emotional leaders of the... Read More »

Gerald Wallace rarely has the best line in the Nets' box score, but a simple look at the stats doesn't do justice to the contribution the hard-working small forward makes on a daily basis. "He's so important," Deron Williams said. "What he does... Read More »

The Brooklyn Nets averted potential disaster late in the second quarter of their 93-89 victory over the Chicago Bulls on Friday night at Barclays Center. With about a minute remaining in the second, point guard Deron Williams appeared to suffer a... Read More »