New Jersey Nets

Former NBA player and destroyer of backboards Darryl Dawkins has passed away at the age of 58, according to multiple reports. Pennsylvania news station WFMZ first brought word of Dawkins’ death (h/t Deadspin). TMZ has since come out with additional information: NBA legend Darryl Dawkins — nicknamed “Chocolate Thunder” for his monster dunks — has [...]

Known more for style than function, British Knights was the quintessential lifestyle brand which took design cues from athletics. With the brand in new hands and Retro sneakers more popular than ever, the market is ripe for the return of the popular British Knights Enforcer basketball shoe. Originally debuted in 1991, the British Knights Enforcer [...]

Tony Parker and Jason Kidd were once almost teammates, and the former wasn’t happy about it. According to Yahoo! Sports’ Adrian Wojnarowski, the San Antonio Spurs made a strong push for Jason Kidd back in 2003 before he ultimately re-signed with the then New Jersey Nets: For everything that’s been so methodical and understated with [...]

June 20, 2012 – The Hoop Doctors As we prepare for Game 5 of the 2012 NBA Finals, here are the Top 10 Individual Performances in NBA Finals’ Game 5’s over the last 20 years (1991-2011): 10. 2009 Kobe Bryant and Pau Gasol (Los Angeles Lakers) Closing out Dwight Howard and the Orlando Magic in [...]

May 30, 2012 – Griffin Gotta Tonight, a bunch of bouncing ping-pong balls will decide the drafting fates of the NBA teams who did not qualify for the postseason. The draft lottery process itself isn’t much to watch; we are introduced to the folks representing each franchise, explained the rules again, take a few hundred [...]

May 8, 2012 – Dan Favale The Dallas Mavericks were eliminated from the NBA playoffs Saturday night, an exit that not only ends their attempt to defend last year’s title, but ends their championship hopes for the foreseeable future. Dirk Nowitzki is a stallion, but he can hardly carry the Mavericks to a championship on [...]

April 19, 2012 – Dan Favale The New Jersey Nets have just three games remaining on their lockout-truncated docket and still can only hypothesize about what Deron Williams will do this summer. [...]

March 25, 2012 – Dan Favale Amid a lockout-shortened schedule, the NBA has been witness to a litany of unbecoming basketball. As the Atlanta Hawks and Utah Jazz came to show us though, that’s not always a bad thing. By now, you, the NBA faithful are fully aware of what transpired Sunday night. The Jazz [...]

March 16, 2012 – Dan Favale Dwight Howard will remain with the Orlando Magic until next season, meaning that Deron Williams’ future with the New Jersey Nets is officially the epitome of uncertainty. Since the end of the lockout, teaming up with Williams on the Brooklyn-bound Nets seemed like Howard’s most likely course of action, [...]

March 14, 2012 – The Hoop Doctors Seems a bit premature before a deal gets done for the NBA Store to start selling Dwight Howard New Jersey Nets T-Shirts, doesn’t it? Well I guess somebody at the NBA e-Commerce Shop must have goofed, because last night they went live with the product. The page has [...]