DeMarre Carroll has turned into an asset the Brooklyn Nets plan on keeping…for now. The team acquired the 31-year-old wing from the Toronto Raptors over the summer in what was strictly a salary dump for the latter. Carroll is owed a total of $30.2 million this season and next, a bill few teams wanted to [...]
January 29, 2018
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With the Cleveland Cavaliers rolling, at 23-8, might they consider moving the Brooklyn Nets’ unprotected first-round pick prior to the February trade deadline in exchange for immediate help? Maybe. But probably not. As one general manager told the Sporting News‘ Sean Deveney: “They would be open to a deal by all indications,” one general manager told Sporting [...]
December 18, 2017
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Jeremy Lin’s short time with the Brooklyn Nets has been riddled by injury, and nothing, apparently, is going to change. As first reported by ESPN.com’s Adrian Wojnarowski, and then soon after announced by the team, Lin suffered a ruptured patellar tendon during Brooklyn’s opening-night loss to the Indiana Pacers and will miss the rest of [...]
October 19, 2017
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Things haven’t really turned out to well for Mihail Prokhorov as owner of the Brooklyn Nets. He bought the team in 2010 and made it clear that his extreme passion for basketball, his risk-taking nature and desire to be No. 1, and his seemingly endless pockets and resources would lead the Nets to the promised [...]
July 27, 2017
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DeMarre Carroll is excited to be joining the Brooklyn Nets. Or rather, he’s at least happy to be leaving the Toronto Raptors. In a candid interview with the Toronto Sun‘s Ryan Wolstat, Carroll expressed that he expected more out of his two-tenure with the Raptors: I wasn’t surprised because I knew it was a lot of [...]
July 11, 2017
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Timofey Mozgov remains awesome. Everyone always mentions his salary when talking about his involvement in the D’Angelo Russell trade that landed them both with the Brooklyn Nets. He is owed $48 million over the next threes. He wasn’t the throw-in; he was the entire reason the Los Angeles Lakers pulled the trigger on this deal–to [...]
June 27, 2017
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The Brooklyn Nets may finally be back on the way up after putting themselves in possibly the worst position imaginable for a franchise with their questionable decisions in their pursuit to be a contender. Now that they have cleared out all of their large or bad contracts and obtained oodles of cap flexibility to take [...]
June 26, 2017
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Tuesday night was a tough one for the Brooklyn Nets. The NBA held its annual draft lottery, and they watched—or rather, we think they watched—as the Boston Celtics ended up with the No. 1 pick, which they landed via a selection swap owed to them from Brooklyn. But that swap is on the previous regime [...]
May 17, 2017
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Roughly one year after installing general manager Sean Marks and head coach Kenny Atkinson and committing to an extensive rebuild, Brooklyn Nets owner Mikhail Prokhorov is looking to sell a 49 percent stake in the team, per the Associated Press (via ESPN): Brooklyn Nets owner Mikhail Prokhorov has told Russian media he’s selling a 49 [...]
April 21, 2017
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The Brooklyn Nets are riding high after Tuesday night’s victory over the Detroit Pistons and thinking big. Okay, truthfully, they were thinking big way before that win. They have a ton of cap space this summer, and as a team without draft picks and the need or ability to win now, they’re perfectly positioned to [...]
March 22, 2017
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