Posts Tagged ‘Brooklyn Nets’
Bradley Beal, Spencer Dinwiddie to skip NBA restart
Standouts Bradley Beal and Spencer Dinwiddie will skip the NBA relaunch later this month. Beal, the Washington Wizards’ leading scorer this season (30.5 points per game, No. 2 in the league), and Dinwiddie, one of the Brooklyn Nets’ top players, won’t play at Walt Disney World in Florida, where NBA teams begin practicing on Friday.…
Read MoreNBA: Joseph Tsai to gain full ownership of Brooklyn Nets
Joseph Tsai, a co-founder of Chinese e-commerce company Alibaba, is set to take full ownership of NBA team the Brooklyn Nets. He already currently owns a 49 percent stake in the team but will be purchasing the remaining 51 percent from Russian billionaire Mikhail Prokhorov with the franchise valued at a whopping $2.35 billion, according…
Read MoreCSKA Moscow ups ante to keep Milos Teodosic
The “Arms Race” is on! A quiet “Cold War” has begun between NBA clubs and CSKA Moscow in order to land/keep Serbian superstar, Milos Teodosic. Several NBA teams have expressed serious interest in luring the 30-year-old guard to the NBA this 2017-18. Some of which include the Miami Heat and the Brooklyn Nets. Teodosic has…
Read MoreBojan Bogdanovic traded to Wizards
The Brooklyn Nets have sent Croatian guard, Bojan Bogdanovic and rookie Chris McCullough to the Washington Wizards. In exchange, the Nets will receive veteran Marcus Thornton and Canadian forward Andrew Nicholson, as well as a lottery-protected, first-round pick for 2017. Bojan has already played 55 games for Brooklyn and was in the midst of his…
Read MoreAnthony Bennett cut by Nets
Anthony Bennett (203 cm, UNLV’13) has been waived by the Brooklyn Nets. He is a 23-year-old Canadian player who was drafted by the Cleveland Cavaliers as the first-overall pick in the 2013 N.B.A. draft. His selection was arguably one of the biggest surprises in the draft. Unfortunately, Bennett was not able to live up to…
Read MoreJeremy Lin, JianLian Yi to Expand NBA Reach in Asia
Every season the NBA does a little bit more to expand its global reach. Despite the global, almost universal popularity of football (soccer to the Americans), the sport of basketball has been gaining some ground as far as widening its fan base is concerned. In 2015-16 friendly games between NBA and Euroleague, clubs helped the…
Read MoreFenerbahce Ulker top Nets, 101-96 in Preseason Action
In NBA preseason action, visiting Turkish club Fenerbahce Ulker Istanbul defeated the Brooklyn Nets 101-96. The Nets were still shaking off some rust, while their visitors looked sharp and well into regular season form. Nets coach Lionel Hollins dismissed the loss and chalked it up to his team needing more practice. “We fought, we battled,…
Read MoreBrooklyn Nets beat Maccabi T-A, 111-94
The Brooklyn Nets came away with their first win in the NBA preseason with a 111-94 rout over the 2014 Turkish Airlines Euroleague champions, Maccabi Electra Tel-Aviv (Israel-Winner League). This was the first acid test for Nets new head coach Lionel Hollins, who ended up passing it with flying colors. The Brooklyn offense got them…
Read MoreNets do not want to Kidd around
Jason Kidd could possibly be the second-ever traded coach in the NBA. Kidd reportedly was maneuvering to become the new President of Basketball Operations of the New Jersey Nets, a position currently held by Billy King. How did Nets’ management respond to Kidd’s attempted coup? They immediately gave him permission to speak to the Milwaukee…
Read MoreNBA Trade Deadline Round-up
In the days and even hours leading up to the recently hit NBA trade deadline, the Philadelphia 76ers figured to be the biggest mover and shaker as it fully commits to rebuilding its roster from the ground up, beginning with the 2014 NBA draft. The biggest move the Sixers made at the deadline was to…
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