New Jersey Nets News

Basketball coverage from the Staten Island Advance

• Nets might sweat Yi's summer plans
SALT LAKE CITY -- Fast forward six months: What happens if Yi Jianlian becomes a rising star among NBA power forwards, and embarks on the same career trajectory as, say, Dirk Nowitzki after his second season?

• Harris can go from zero to hero
SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- It's hard to remember that there was a time -- as recently as two seasons back -- that Devin Harris would beat himself up after a bad quarter or two, incapable of doing anything but broadcasting his "introverted, poor-me attitude" to the world, as Avery Johnson used to describe it.

• A front row seat for Raptors of the long arc
EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. -- While searching for dangerous matchups heading into tonight's game against the Raptors, Lawrence Frank had to see this one jump out at him like a late defender coming off a botched switch.

• Net glass half empty
EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. -- The bright side to a 24-point blowout? This could have been glorious, if not for that annoying formality about having to play both halves.

• Hello LeBron, see you again in 2010?
The promiscuous guessing games with the media border on feeble-minded, but this is the silly season, and this is the way everyone always plays it. LeBron James isn't going to opt out of this tedious exercise anyway, and this is his prerogative.

• Frank, team make their points
This is his first opportunity to issue a sardonic told-ya-so, but Lawrence Frank will resist the temptation and shrug his way out of the discussion.

• Pacers give Nets a beating
EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. -- So it's come to this: Even teams missing their two best players and a third starter who happens to be a double-double guy now believe they can limp into the Nets' gym and trash the joint.

• Done in by Dwyane
MIAMI -- This one is going to leave a mark.

• Net youngsters may see less time
MIAMI -- Even now, before they know what kind of team they have or gauge the learning curves of their younger guys, the balancing act is underway.

• Harris working hard to end shooting slump
EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. -- He was the last guy to leave the gym yesterday -- isn't that always the case with slumping shooters? -- but you had the impression that Devin Harris wasn't getting the desired results from those 200 extra jumpers he took with assistant coach Jim Sann.

• No defense for Nets' 'D'
EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. -- Asked where his team is defensively, Lawrence Frank didn't skip a beat:

• Suns beat Nets by a landslide
EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. -- Well, at least someone from Arizona won last night.

• Lopez offers hope for future
EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. -- Their campaign strategy is to sell hope, which is pretty much what every young NBA team does these days. And by now, it is clear that the Nets have some: It surfaces nearly every time Brook Lopez touches the ball.