Brook Lopez

So it turns out Brook Lopez was really close to joining the Oklahoma City Thunder last season. Like, super close. Nets Daily rehashed our memory with some additional details: Maybe Brook remembers that Sam Presti decided against trading for him at 2:40 p.m. last February, after he had packed and overnight bag. — NetsDaily.com (@NetsDaily) [...]

Well, this is sort of new. Sergey Karasev isn’t a household name. He’s in his third NBA season, second with the Brooklyn Nets, and hasn’t even played a total of 750 minutes for his career. He’s appeared in just two game this year, and the Nets declined to pick up his option for next season. [...]

The Brooklyn Nets aren’t about to cry over a little 0-7 start to the 2015-16 season. General manager Billy King will, however, listen to various trade proposals. The Nets are enduring some seriously turbulent times to start the year. They’re significantly less talented on paper than they were last season, and the absence of Deron [...]

Lionel Hollins is not counting down the days until Brook Lopez leaves in free agency. It’s just the opposite. From The Brooklyn Game’s Devin Kharpertian: Lionel Hollins has been at odds with Brook Lopez at times this season. But that doesn’t mean he wants a breakup. “I don’t worry about whether he’s going to be [...]

Brook Lopez, who speaks fluent cowabunga, is building a house on the Disney World grounds. Not near or around or in the general vicinity of. ON. From the New York Daily News‘ Stefan Bondy (h/t Eye On Basketball): Nets center Brook Lopez, 26, a longtime Disneyphile with a Goofy figurine in his locker, told the [...]

Here we go again. !#$%^&*&^%$#@! Not two weeks ago, we talked about the Denver Nuggets being interested in Brook Lopez. It was weird on the Nuggets’ part. Yours truly was incensed to an extent, wondering what the hell Denver was doing. Without context, it made little sense for the Nets, too. Who would the Nuggets [...]

New York basketball fans just cannot catch a break. The Knicks stink something awful, sort of on purpose, but kind of an accident. They have the league’s second-worst record, have stripped the roster of most impact players, remain thin on young talent, will probably shut Carmelo Anthony down after the All-Star break and are, frankly, [...]

The Denver Nuggets are reportedly interested in trading for the Brooklyn Nets’ Brook Lopez. To this, I say: !@#$%^&UI Also: !@#$%TYUI And finally: !@#$%^&*I( Here’s The Denver Post‘s Christopher Dempsey with the deets: The Brooklyn Nets recently tried, unsuccessfully, to deal center Brook Lopez, which led to the franchise putting the brakes on the whole [...]

The Brooklyn Nets’ longstanding fire sale hasn’t seen them do any selling. Might the Miami Heat change their mind? According to ESPN New York’s Ohm Youngmisuk, the Heat are among the teams registering interest in a Brook Lopez trade: [tweet https://twitter.com/NotoriousOHM/status/555487146887618562] Trading any of their pricy pacts makes sense for the Nets. Whatever helps whittle [...]

Hypothetical NBA trades that don’t come true are the worst—especially those that would have been awesome. Like this one. According to ESPN New York’s Ohm Youngmisuk, the Brooklyn Nets and Oklahoma City Thunder talked shop on a deal involving Brook Lopez: [tweet: https://twitter.com/NotoriousOHM/status/552312545793826817] Nets Daily confirmed the rumor, which at this point, will never come [...]