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Brooklyn Nets survive rollicking OT vs. Washington Wizards, win 122-119

Brooklyn Nets survive rollicking OT vs. Washington Wizards, win 122-119

Photo by Jess Rapfogel/ That was a very fun win for the Brooklyn Nets, and we can leave it at that. It’s nice to watch basketball without expectations. Certainly, there are none left for the 2023-’24 Brooklyn Nets, who will not be playing postseason basketball in any form, and whose players are not in line for any award ceremonies at the end of the regular season. Okay, “nice” may oversell it. The alternative would mean more wins, and thus, less misery, but when the Nets took on the Washington Wizards to complete their four-game road trip on Wednesday, it was...
20 hours ago
NBA Live Discussion: Brooklyn Nets at Washington Wizards, 7:00 PM ET

NBA Live Discussion: Brooklyn Nets at Washington Wizards, 7:00 PM ET

Photo by Mark Blinch/ Nets visit a Wizards team that’s won three straight. The Nets have a chance to nab consecutive wins with a matchup against the lowly Wizards. Can’t sleep on them, though. They’ve won a season-high three straight games! WHO: Brooklyn Nets (27-45) at Washington Wizards (14-58) WHEN: 7 PM ET WHERE: YES Network on TV. WFAN on radio. *** From our game preview... Injuries: Cam Johnson, Keita Bates-Diop, Dennis Smith Jr., Ben Simmons and Dariq Whitehead are all out while Cam Thomas who developed back spasms just before the Raptors game is...
Mar 27, 2024
Long Island Nets earn trip to playoffs with blowout win over Grand Rapids Gold, 127-94

Long Island Nets earn trip to playoffs with blowout win over Grand Rapids Gold, 127-94

Photo by Luther Schlaifer/NBAE via Eight Nets scored in double figures and Long Island clinched a post-season spot at Nassau Coliseum Tuesday. The Long Island Nets (19-14) defeated the Grand Rapids Gold (11-21), 127-94, on Tuesday evening at Nassau Coliseum. In doing so, Long Island clinched its fourth playoff berth in franchise history. Eight Nets scored in double figures in the win, including forward Davion Warren, who posted a career-high 33 points to go along with eight rebounds, five assists, two steals and one block in 33 minutes. The Nets two reliable vets,...
Mar 27, 2024
Brooklyn Nets vs. Washington Wizards preview: a trip to the nation’s capital

Brooklyn Nets vs. Washington Wizards preview: a trip to the nation’s capital

Photo by Jeff Haynes/NBAE via The Nets will try to snap the Wizards longest winning streak of the season — three games — when they travel to Washington tonight. A win at last. The Brooklyn Nets traveled north of the border to face the Toronto Raptors in a battle of losing streaks and the Nets prevailed as they ended their six-game losing streak by beating the Raptors who now have lost 11 straight, It was a big game for Noah Clowney, the Nets 19-year-old rookie who looked like an NBA player as he put him seven points, grabbed six rebounds, blocked a shot, hit a...
Mar 26, 2024
Reversal of Fortune: How Brooklyn Nets and New York Knicks switched places

Reversal of Fortune: How Brooklyn Nets and New York Knicks switched places

Photo by Nathaniel S. Butler/NBAE via John Hollinger talks about how the Nets look like the Knicks of old and vice versa. John Hollinger of the The Athletic isn’t just a writer on NBA topics, particularly how front offices work. He was also vice president of basketball operations for the Memphis Grizzlies between his journalistic gigs. So he’s well versed in the ups and downs of franchises. On Monday, Hollinger wrote how New York’s NBA teams have switched places with the Brooklyn Nets becoming the old version of the New York Knicks ... and the reverse. New...
Mar 25, 2024
Shams: Brooklyn Nets offered Jalen Green, multiple picks for Mikal Bridges ... is this new?

Shams: Brooklyn Nets offered Jalen Green, multiple picks for Mikal Bridges ... is this new?

Photo by Logan Riely/NBAE via The trade deadline is passed but stories keep coming out. In a segment on FanDuel TV Monday, Shams Charania reported that the Houston Rockets offered the Brooklyn Nets Jalen Green and a number of the remaining draft assets from the James Harden trade for Mikal Bridges, but that the Nets turned down the offer... .@ShamsCharania on Jalen Green and Alperen Şengün:“The #Rockets called the Nets on Mikal Bridges discussing a concept around Jalen Green and multiple 1sts, that was not accepted…It’s a great problem for the #Rockets to...
Mar 25, 2024
3 Takeaways Brooklyn Nets grinding win vs Toronto Raptors

3 Takeaways Brooklyn Nets grinding win vs Toronto Raptors

Photo by Mark Blinch/ A win is a win even over a team that has lost the last 10 games. The Brooklyn Nets and Toronto Raptors linked up tonight, each on losing streaks that would reach 16 if added together, under the cloud of a betting scandal, while each carrying a laundry list of notable inactives. In a week filled with Brooklyn Nets x Spongebob Squarepants references thanks to Josh Hart, let me just say, if you willingly tuned into the game, you’re tough enough to get into the Salty Spittoon. Tonight’s game did offer a few glances at Brooklyn’s lesser-known...
Mar 25, 2024
Brooklyn Nets beat Toronto Raptors 96-88 to snap six-game losing streak

Brooklyn Nets beat Toronto Raptors 96-88 to snap six-game losing streak

Photo by Vaughn Ridley/NBAE via It was a rough watch, but the Nets are in no position to complain about a win. After all, we got to watch the rookies! The Brooklyn Nets and Toronto Raptors participated in a March Madness classic on Monday night. And while the NBA’s version of early spring basketball does inch closer to the NCAA’s in terms of quality, the stakes couldn’t be more different. With the Nets entering Monday night five-and-a-half games out of the Play-In race, acceptance has set in on their underwhelming season. There are no more visions of a Play-In...
Mar 25, 2024
FILM STUDY: Brooklyn Nets are guarding their tails off ... Until a shot goes up.

FILM STUDY: Brooklyn Nets are guarding their tails off ... Until a shot goes up.

Photo by Nathaniel S. Butler/NBAE via Historically bad rebounding is tanking an otherwise elite Brooklyn Nets half-court defense. Let’s examine why. March has been a maddening month for the Brooklyn Nets. It started with an inspiring victory over the Atlanta Hawks that brought them within two games of the East’s final Play-In spot, and it spread momentary hope throughout the organization. More meaningful basketball was on the way, games would matter, the schedule even looked easy! Well, a 105-93 loss to the New York Knicks brought Brooklyn’s record to 2-9 since...
Mar 25, 2024
Brooklyn Nets vs. Toronto Raptors preview: The battle of losing streaks

Brooklyn Nets vs. Toronto Raptors preview: The battle of losing streaks

Photo by Mark Blinch/NBAE via Somebody’s gotta win, right? A hard fought loss, but a loss nonetheless. The Brooklyn Nets made a quick trip to Manhattan to face the New York Knicks on Saturday, and it was a good game early on what was a dreary NY Saturday. However, a fourth quarter Knick downpour ruined Brooklyn’s Saturday and doomed them to their sixth consecutive loss. The opponent tonight has had even worse luck than the Nets recently. It looked as if the Toronto Raptors had an outside chance of making the tenth seed and a date in the play-in game, however,...
Mar 24, 2024
3 Takeaways From Brooklyn Nets daft loss to New York Knicks

3 Takeaways From Brooklyn Nets daft loss to New York Knicks

Photo by Nathaniel S. Butler/NBAE via Bad times as Nets lose sixth straight ... at the Garden What an NBA game is — in its essence — no longer seems to apply to the Brooklyn Nets. Rather than an opportunity to get a win, build up their record, and please their fans, contests for them just feel like hurdles to clear to closer to the finish line of this hellish season. Rather than glory, they’re a team chasing relief. Even a date across the river with the “rivaled” New York Knicks was of this nature. With a win, Brooklyn would have earned an extra day or two...
Mar 23, 2024
Brooklyn Nets flattened by New York Knicks in unwatchable fourth quarter, lose 105-93

Brooklyn Nets flattened by New York Knicks in unwatchable fourth quarter, lose 105-93

Photo by Fatih Aktas/Anadolu via The Knicks did what the Knicks do, and the Nets did what the Nets do. The result thus followed. The Brooklyn Nets and New York Knicks played the 213th game of their LIRR/PATH/Subway Series rivalry on Saturday afternoon, and for a moment, nothing else mattered. Not Brooklyn entering MSG as losers of five straight (the longest active streak in the NBA), not their long-lost season, nor the Manhattanites’ huge lead in this season’s standings. It was simply an opportunity for the Nets to “grow,” something Kevin Ollie has harped on...
Mar 23, 2024
Brooklyn Nets vs. NY Knicks preview: A Saturday matinee at the Garden

Brooklyn Nets vs. NY Knicks preview: A Saturday matinee at the Garden

Photo by Thearon W. Henderson/ The Nets are back in town, but heading to MSG as they take on the Knicks. The effort was there. Unfortunately, that didn’t help the result. The Brooklyn Nets rallied against the Milwaukee Bucks on Thursday night, but it was all for naught as the Bucks made key plays late to hand the Nets another tough loss. The L was Brooklyn’s fifth in a row and their postseason chances are just about cooked. The opponent today is back home after a west coast road trip. The New York Knicks had a chance to have a perfect road trip, but Nikola Jokic had...
Mar 22, 2024
3 Takeaways from Brooklyn Nets Spirited Loss to Milwaukee Bucks

3 Takeaways from Brooklyn Nets Spirited Loss to Milwaukee Bucks

Nets getting close! Is that a good thing? Upsets, bracket chatter, and an onslaught of Capital One commercials featuring Charles Barkley and his buddies — it’s hard to think of a louder sporting event in existence than March Madness. With the NCAA dropping needle on the big dance yesterday, the college game seemed all but certain to drown out any noise conjured up by the lowly Brooklyn Nets, who tipped off game No. 70 just as Dayton completed its surreal 17-point comeback and Oakland started making Kentucky fans sweat. This time of year, there’s only so much basketball...
Mar 22, 2024
Long Island Nets blown out, but two-way Jaylen Martin scores 18

Long Island Nets blown out, but two-way Jaylen Martin scores 18

Photo by Evan Yu/NBAE via Jaylen Martin averaged 15 points a game for the Westchester Knicks before the Nets signed him at the deadline. He had his first big game for Long Island Thurday. With G League playoffs starting in less than two weeks, the Long Island Nets have lost three of their last four games, including a 29-point blowout to the at Nassau Coliseum Thursday night. With Noah Clowney in Brooklyn and two-way Keon Johnson unavailable, the Long Islanders had little scoring prowess and wound up shooting 42.1% overall and only 22.9% from deep. Three Nets who head...