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We Come to Play: Brooklyn Nets Summer Rewind

August 6, 2016

One year ago at this time, the Brooklyn Nets were a franchise with a regrettable past and a doomed future. However, the appointment of Sean Marks as the team's GM in February this year turned the entire picture...

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Player Profile: Justin Hamilton – The Big Man

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August 5, 2016

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After the first day of free agency, the biggest Brooklyn Nets-related story was undoubtedly the signing of Jeremy Lin. However, the Nets made another move that day by signing Justin Hamilton to a two-year, $6 m...

Player Profile: Chris McCullough – The Sophomore

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August 5, 2016

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Considering their precarious lack of lottery picks, the Brooklyn Nets' best draft strategy consists of taking risks. In general, there are two basic roads a team can take: draft for fit or draft for pure potential. Most teams are fairly settled, and they norma...

Reasons to be excited for Jeremy Lin

Jason Ha

July 31, 2016

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Reasons to be excited for Jeremy Lin First and foremost, I would like to say I’m over the moon that Jeremy Lin signed with the Brooklyn Nets during free agency. It has been a pretty tough 4 years for Jeremy ...

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Player Profile: Luis Scola – The Veteran

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July 29, 2016

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Much like every other professional sports league, the NBA is constantly shifting its focus towards the promising youngsters. If you're 36 years old, there's a big chance your NBA career is done and dusted. The ...

Player Profile: Rondae Hollis-Jefferson – The Lockdown Defender

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July 28, 2016

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Most Nets fans are probably trying to forget that the first half of the 2015-16 season has ever happened. Billy King was still the general manager, and by that point it became fairly obvious that the franchise didn't have any coherent plan for the future, sett...

Nets Win Projections Underestimate The Lin/Atkinson Factor

Nathan Gottlieb

July 28, 2016

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Last season Yahoo projected the Hornets would win 27 games, but with Lin playing an important “glue” role, they wound up with 48 victories and made the playoffs. This season ESPN predicted the Nets would onl...

Player Profile: Isaiah Whitehead – The Local Kid

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July 27, 2016

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For a Brooklyn native, getting traded to the Nets is probably a dream come true. That's exactly what happened to Isaiah Whitehead, the 56th overall pick in the 2016 NBA draft. When the opportunity to acquire Wh...

Player Profile: Caris LeVert – The Rookie

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July 26, 2016

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Prior to his junior season in college, it seemed like Caris LeVert had it all going for him. He was one of the most exciting young prospects in the country and a projected high lottery pick. A couple of surgeries later, and his draft stock fell all the way dow...

Player Profile: Joe Harris – The Talent

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July 23, 2016

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Getting drafted by a contender for the title is a double-edged sword. On the one hand, you get a unique opportunity to work on building a winning mentality. On the other hand, teams chasing the ring usually jus...