NY Daily News

• Ex-Net gets 18 months in prison for fatal 2002 fatal shooting
• Lack of Nets offense has Frank defensive
• Nets seek order on court

In the 'Zzone

• We're Moving
• Douglas-Roberts Hurts Neck
• The Small Forward

Nets Blast

• Nets to acquire Sparta native Troy Murphy
• Nets 2010-11 schedule released
• As Nets Head To London, David Stern Has An Epiphany

• December 12 - Nets vs. Raptors
• December 13 - Nets @ Bulls
• December 15 - Nets @ Raptors

Cheikh Samb Anyone?

Hedo Turkoglu Wants Out of TOR

Lockout Could Keep Lakers From Giving Jackson Multi-Year Deal

Draft Lottery

Shawne Williams

Vince Carter and Ryan Anderson have been traded to the Magic in two seperate deals. Carter was traded for Rafer Alston, Tony Battie and Courtney Lee. Alston and Battie are both expiring contracts, and Lee will be entering his second season in the NBA after a decent rookie season. Ryan Anderson was also traded for a trade exception, no other players or picks were involved.

After many analysts have dubbed the Nets the surprise team this year, ESPN was quick on nominating Lawrence Frank for the Coach of the Year award (link, for those interested.) If it is fair to give the credit for a “bad team” to have success to the coach, than the same can be said when the same franchise has seen the same patterns in losing over Lawrence Franks tenure as the Nets head coach.

Before going into details about the patterns of Lawrence Frank which will result in the Nets inability to achieve the goal of every team, every single year, winning the Championship. Let’s first explain what happened in the game against the Knicks on December 10th. The game started out with the Nets scorching hot, Devin Harris was dominating, the Nets were attacking and finding the open players on the perimeter and the shots were falling. The Nets built up a 15 point lead which looked like it was just the start to a great night of whooping the Knicks around. With the game seemingly out of reach for the Knicks, they needed a miracle to gain the momentum to beat the Nets in the Izod Center. But that miracle came from the Knicks head coach, Mike D’Antoni, something Knicks fans would have never expected to see last season. D’Antoni quickly went for his energy players looking for a boost, calling on his team to control the tempo of the game, and that they did. The Knicks beat the Nets in what used to be the Nets game, running.

Brook Lopez was drafted by the Nets with the 10th overall pick. It surprised many that he was still available at the Nets selection because many experts had him ranked high on their draft charts and no one expected the Bobcats to pass on him. Fortunately for the Nets, they were on the clock and Brook Lopez was still available, it made for an easy pick in the draft to fill a position of need, Center, and pick the best player available.

On August 6th the Nets entire regular season schedule was announced, and their first week is nothing to be excited for. The open this season away in Washington than they come back to New Jersey for 3 home games against the Warriors, Suns, and Pistons. That is not an east opening week, 3 of the 4 were play-off teams last season, and all 4 finished with records above .500%.

Games to look forward to:

In an article on ESPN, Jason Kidd is quoted for asking for a trade. It is sad and unfortunate that the Kidd error for the Nets will be coming to an end.

Under Construction - More to come.