Getty Image The Houston Rockets in the Mike D’Antoni-James Harden era have always been ahead of the curve in terms of leveraging the value of the three-point shot, but they took it to a whole other level on Wednesday night during their overtime loss to the Brooklyn Nets. The game itself had plenty of drama, […]
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Getty Image The Brooklyn Nets cannot help but to play in close games every night. Every Nets game seemingly comes down to the wire, and Wednesday’s game in Houston was no different. James Harden and the Rockets welcomed the Nets to town with Harden going off for his customary 50-point outing as he managed to […]
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Getty Drake attends Wimbledon. Back in 2007, Soulja Boy’s Crank That was a number one hit. It was also on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 and he was listend on Forbes’ list of Hip-Hop Cash Kings of 2010 for earning $7 million for that year. With all of that success….Guess what? Soulja Boy taught Drake a […]
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Getty Houston Rockets guard James Harden As the James Harden show rolls on, the Houston Rockets welcome an opponent they’ve faced just once this season in the Brooklyn Nets. Although the Rockets roster is depleted with injuries, they’ve managed to continue winning games thanks to Harden and a few others stepping up. On Wednesday, they […]
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Getty Houston Rockets guard Chris Paul After the rough run of injuries the Houston Rockets have been forced to endure, they’d happily take the good with the bad at this point. As of late, it’s just been a handful of negatives impacting Houston’s roster, at least from an injury standpoint. While James Harden has done […]
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Getty Image In the past couple of seasons, Spencer Dinwiddie has really come into his own as an NBA player. Last year, he was a finalist for the vaunted Most Improved Player award, and he entered this season as one of the Nets’ most important pieces as they look toward the future. His play on […]
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Development of Nets‘ Spencer Dinwiddie shows the importance of G League scouting for the Bulls originally appeared on nbcsportschicago.com On Wednesday night the Bulls fell 96-93 to the Brooklyn Nets in a game dominated by point guard play. In the matchup, Kris Dunn-acquired by the Bulls in the ‘17 NBA Draft night trade of Jimmy […]
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Getty Image The Brooklyn Nets won their sixth game in a row on Tuesday night and sit 1.5 games back of a playoff spot in the Eastern Conference. After missing the postseason the last three years, it’s a logical stepping point for a franchise that is working towards returning to contention. And yet, the Nets […]
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Getty Image Spencer Dinwiddie has been spectacular for the Brooklyn Nets this season as a reserve point guard behind D’Angelo Russell. While he doesn’t start, he typically is on the floor to finish games, and on Wednesday, Dinwiddie had a monster performance with 39 points in a win over the Sixers. Last year was the […]
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Getty Image The Brooklyn Nets have been miserable in close games to start this season, but on Wednesday they picked up their third straight win and appear to maybe be snapping out of their late-game funk in clutch situations. The Nets beat the red-hot Sixers in a 127-124 shootout on Wednesday at home, where the […]
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Los Angeles (AFP) – D’Angelo Russell scored 29 points as the Brooklyn Nets beat the Toronto Raptors for the first time in more than three years with a 106-105 overtime win on Friday. Russell carried the host Nets on his back in overtime, scoring all but two of his team’s points as they snapped an […]
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Getty Image The Brooklyn Nets fell to 8-18 on the season on Wednesday night as they blew an 18-point lead entering the fourth quarter against the Thunder, as Paul George erupted for 25 points in the final period. It was the largest comeback in Thunder franchise history and, unfortunately for the Nets, a familiar sight […]
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When a team has had eight home arenas in two states over a half-century, it’s tough to build a dedicated fan base. At Brooklyn’s Barclays Center, where the Nets moved in 2012, they are last in the N.B.A. in attendance and most fans tend to make noise only when T-shirts are being shot from cannons. […]
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There could be only one response, from the perspective of Milwaukee Bucks Coach Mike Budenholzer, to the historically futile shooting night Brook Lopez recently endured. After Lopez set an unwanted league record for most 3-point attempts in a game without a make, shooting 0 for 12 on threes in a loss to the Phoenix Suns, […]
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Getty Image The Memphis Grizzlies have been one of the feelgood stories of the young season, and they continued their hot streak with a thrilling double-overtime win against the Nets on Friday night in Brooklyn, 131-125. Rookie Jaren Jackson Jr. continued his spectacular play, finishing with a career-high 36 points to go along with eight […]
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Jarrett Allen stood outside a Key Food Supermarket in the Clinton Hill section of Brooklyn and handed 25 local children a grocery list and a calculator. Their task was to use math, and a calculator imprinted with Allen’s name and Nets jersey number, to fill their grocery carts and stay within the $100 budget he […]
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Getty Image Seemingly every game the Philadelphia 76ers have played since acquiring Jimmy Butler has gone down to the wire. While Butler and his new teammates figure out how to play together, they’re finding themselves in some serious battles, but to this point they’ve come out on top in five of seven games since acquiring […]
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Getty Image One of the harsh truths of the NBA is that close games can make or break a season. Consider how close the playoff races are at the end of the season. Last season alone, three wins separated the No. 3 seed Trail Blazers in the West from the outside looking in Nuggets at […]
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Twitter The Brooklyn Nets don’t have the best City Jerseys in the NBA, but to be fair to them, the competition was pretty tough. The Miami Heat and Minnesota Timberwolves had some truly stunning entries into the race this year, and teams like Denver and Milwaukee weren’t far behind. But the joy of City Jerseys […]
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Dwight Howard was a beast against the Brooklyn Nets Friday night, dropping 25 points and grabbing 17 rebounds against one of his former teams. Well, he was dominant in the first half, when he picked up a fourth foul relatively early in the third quarter Scott Brooks went away from Howard for too long, the […]
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