Showing posts with label Brooklyn Nets. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Brooklyn Nets. Show all posts
NBA Playoffs: Great Games in Round 2
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| Can Kevin Durant and Russell Westbrook win together? Photo credit NBA |
After an epic first round of the 2014 NBA Playoffs, round 2 is ready to tip-off. Is everything okay for Indiana now? Can the Clippers continue to overcome? Is LeBron really what the Brooklyn Nets want? What are the betting odds?
by +Rodney Fisher
NBA: Nets Joe Johnson Talks Teams Play, Coach Kidd, and Taking The Last Shot
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| Joe Johnson talks about his Nets turnaround and his development under head coach Jason Kidd. Photo credit NBA |
When the Brooklyn Nets started the 2013-14 NBA season, with a first-year head coach with a new roster of veterans, expectations where high. After a 10-21 record before New Years Day, those hopes turned into nightmares. Since then the Nets have the hottest team in the Eastern Conference with a 28-12 record, good enough for a fifth place seed.
After the Nets overtime win over the Dallas Mavericks (107-104), I had the chance to chat with six-time NBA All-Star Joe Johnson about the team's turnaround, his new coach, and what makes him so lucky in the final seconds of a game.
NBA: New Orleans Pelicans Acquire Tyshawn Taylor
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| Tyshawn Taylor is now a Pelican. Photo credit NBA. |
With the recent injury to starting PG Jrue Holiday, the New Orleans Pelicans acquired Tyshawn Taylor.
NBA: Jason Kidd pulls slick move for an extra timeout
by J.T.
With no timeout left with less than 9 seconds left in the game Jason Kidd told Tayshawn Taylor to bump into him so he would drop his drink. Hilarious, but smart because it gave him a free timeout to allow the Nets to draw up a last possession play.
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| Jason Kidd fined $50,000 for spilling drink on purpose. Photo credit YES |
With no timeout left with less than 9 seconds left in the game Jason Kidd told Tayshawn Taylor to bump into him so he would drop his drink. Hilarious, but smart because it gave him a free timeout to allow the Nets to draw up a last possession play.
NBA: MarShon Brooks has finally been freed
by J.T.
The Brooklyn Nets and Boston Celtics made a blockbuster deal during the 2013 NBA Draft. Which the last few transactions the Celtics have been a part of we know they are in pure rebuild mode, which happens when your best players age it's apart of the game.
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| MarShon Brooks will get his chance in Boston. Photo credit NBA |
The Brooklyn Nets and Boston Celtics made a blockbuster deal during the 2013 NBA Draft. Which the last few transactions the Celtics have been a part of we know they are in pure rebuild mode, which happens when your best players age it's apart of the game.
Podcast: 5G Sports Talk
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| Jason Kidd new Nets coach? |
Podcast: 5G Sports Talk "Turning up the heat"
NBA Power Rankings (4/8 - 4/14): Where do the Knicks rank now?
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| Knicks on a 12-game win streak move up NBA Power Rankings/ picture courtesy of NBA |
Time for this week's NBA Power Rankings report. Everyone wants to know where I have the Knicks at now...
by Rodney FisherNets top Pistons in double overtime 107-105; Johnson hits game winner
The free agent aquistion of Joe Johnson by the Brooklyn Nets paid off last night. Johnson had 28 points total, but it was his jumper at the buzzer of a second overtime that clinched the win.
"The coaches and, like I say, my teammates have the confidence in putting the ball in my hands down the stretch, then I have to come up big for us," - Joe Johnson
FULL STORY and BOX SCORE
"The coaches and, like I say, my teammates have the confidence in putting the ball in my hands down the stretch, then I have to come up big for us," - Joe Johnson
FULL STORY and BOX SCORE
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