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News broke back in May that superstar power forward/center Karl-Anthony Towns and the Minnesota Timberwolves are “not in a good place internally.” This was reported by ESPN’s Zach Lowe on The Lowe Post. His colleague Brian Windhorst asked Lowe to share his thoughts on Towns and the Timberwolves. Here is what Lowe said via Hoops Hype’s […]

The 2018 NBA Draft is under way and this year’s class is as electric as any other in recent memory. Follow along as the results for each team are announced today, with every team taking another step toward their future. Phoenix Suns: DeAndre Ayton — C (Arizona)A double-double machine with plenty of untapped potential, despite posting […]

The Brooklyn Nets just completed a trade with the Charlotte Hornets for center Dwight Howard on Wednesday morning, and a day later, it looks like Howard is already on the way out. According to Chris Haynes of ESPN, Howard and the Nets are set to negotiate on the buyout, and center is expected to hit […]

Dwight Howard was recently sent to the Brooklyn Nets via trade. Point guard D’Angelo Russell reacted to the big news. As per Michael Scotto of The Athletic, Russell said that Howard can definitely help the Nets rack up some wins: “Man, he’s definitely a piece that can help any team. He’s well respected around the […]

The Brooklyn Nets and Charlotte Hornets have just agreed to make the first big trade of the 2018 offseason. Embattled center Dwight Howard will now don the Nets’ colors after the team sent Timofey Mozgov, a couple of second rounders, and cash considerations over to Michael Jordan’s squad. The deal works for both teams. Charlotte […]

The Charlotte Hornets are finalizing a trade to send center Dwight Howard to the Brooklyn Nets for Timofey Mozgov, according to ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski. The Nets will include two future second-round picks and cash compensation going to the Hornets in exchange for Howard, who has a $23.8 million expiring contract. This is a clear salary-dump […]

The Brooklyn Nets are coming off yet another disappointing season, as they finished with a 28-54 record for the 2017-18 campaign, though, no one really expected them to be a competitive squad. In any case, the Nets will continue its rebuild program, which they could speed up if they manage to succeed netting a higher […]

Brooklyn Nets guard Spencer Dinwiddie may have been one of the most improved players in the league this season, but he and the rest of his team would have to improve much more to make this wish come true. After LeBron James was swept by the Golden State Warriors last night in the NBA Finals, […]

What if I told you one of the most surprisingly entertaining teams in the league did not have a superstar, lacked a lottery pick to potentially get one by tanking, and finished 13 games under .500? Without its most beloved player. That was pretty much the story of the 2017-18 Brooklyn Nets. Their record (28-54) wasn’t […]

It goes without saying that the 2017-18 NBA season for the Brooklyn Nets did not go as planned. However, that does not mean that there are any hard feelings between the players. That said, it seems former NBA player Jalen Rose did not get the memo when he suggested that Brooklyn was hardly a shining example […]

In 2013, the Boston Celtics sent Paul Pierce and Kevin Garnett to the Brooklyn Nets in exchange for a couple of first-round picks in 2014, 2016, 2018. Five years down the road, the Celtics are clearly reaping the benefits of the deal. As reported by David Aldridge of NBA.com, the aforementioned deal is a “gift […]

The Phoenix Suns were the big winners of last week’s 2018 NBA Draft Lottery when they were announced to have won the right to select the first overall pick. There’s no question that the Suns are the envy of just about every NBA team these days, as they have the luxury of picking the best […]

Daily shipment of highlight reels, filled with extraordinary individual plays and thrilling displays of teamwork, is the factor that has always driven the popularity of the NBA across the globe. There is, however, the other side to that coin. With almost a 1,000 hours of televised action per season, we are bound to witness a […]

The season wasn’t supposed to end in the first round of the playoffs for Paul George. He went to the Oklahoma City Thunder in the hopes of expanding his horizons other than going to the L.A. Lakers in the 2018 offseason. The Lakers weren’t willing to give up any of their young players to acquire […]

The Brooklyn Nets are not wasting time in the offseason. Instead of staying at home and watch as the playoffs unfold, they are working out as a team in Los Angeles. As posted by Nets forward DeMarre Carroll, the team is working out in LA: https://www.instagram.com/p/BikLGxmnG3e/?taken-by=demarrecarroll1 The Nets finished 13th place in the Eastern Conference […]

The 2018 offseason is just a few months away and the biggest storyline this summer will be the destination of a certain number 23. LeBron James and the Cleveland Cavaliers are currently fighting for their playoff lives in their second-round playoff match-up with the Toronto Raptors. The possibility that James will have his earliest playoff […]

After the Indiana Pacers lost Game 7 to the Cleveland Cavaliers, Victor Oladipo made some news when he texted his trainer right after the game, looking to start training for next season. https://www.instagram.com/p/BiKuM7ZBTr1/?utm_source=ig_embed He, however, isn’t the only one training with David Alexander since the season ended. Brooklyn Nets center Jahlil Okafor, hoping to revive […]

In the playoffs, 16 teams compete for the title. The other teams and its respective players that did not qualify, well, watch at home and tweet their opinions. Spencer Dinwiddie of the Brooklyn Nets said that Derrick Rose is the best player in the series between the Minnesota Timberwolves and the Houston Rockets. He immediately […]

Despite having a career-best season with the Brooklyn Nets, forward DeMarre Carroll is putting all of his eggs in young D’Angelo Russell, who came in as part of a trade for the team’s leading scorer from 2016-17, Brook Lopez. Russell showed flashes of becoming the go-to player for this system, but a knee injury set […]

With the Brooklyn Nets having nothing left to play for this year, they have decided to shut down DeMarre Carroll for the rest of the season. Told DeMarre Carroll has likely played his last game this season with only two games remaining on the schedule. He strained his hip in a loss against Philadelphia on […]

With the L.A. Clippers’ 134-115 blowout loss on Saturday afternoon at the hands of the surging Denver Nuggets, they were officially eliminated from the wild Western Conference playoff race. Additionally, according to a Reddit thread on Saturday started by user clockairdown, something was officially done today that hadn’t happened with the NBA’s two largest markets […]

There are at least a hundred better things to see on a Saturday night than a tankapalooza NBA game between the Brooklyn Nets and the Chicago Bulls. But for those who chose to get their dose of weekend entertainment from this match, they were able to witness history unfold right in front of their eyes. […]

He was supposed to be a Spur for life. After winning a championship and the NBA Finals Most Valuable Player award in 2014, and finishing in the top three in the regular season MVP race last season, Kawhi Leonard was destined for greatness in a San Antonio Spurs jersey. He was the successor to Tim […]

If you watched the San Antonio Spurs take on the Los Angeles Lakers on Wednesday night on ESPN, you noticed the game-winning shot attempt by one Josh Hart, well, disappear from your television screen in favor of a commercial. About two second later, the channel cut back to the game, only to find out that […]

Nets Guard Isaiah Whitehead who had carved himself out a nice little role on the team will miss the rest of the season with a wrist injury that required surgery. Sources: Nets guard Isaiah Whitehead will undergo surgery to repair a ligament injury in his right wrist. Whitehead has shown promise as a rotation guard […]

Detroit Pistons center Andre Drummond was fined $15,000 and Brooklyn Nets forward Quincy Acy was fined $25,000 for an altercation during Sunday’s game at the Barclays Center, according to Shams Charania of Yahoo Sports. The two big men got into it during the last few seconds of the third quarter, as Detroit sported a 13-point […]

When it comes to Brooklyn Nets small forward Joe Harris, the 2017-18 NBA season has been a pleasant surprise with his development as a player. With Harris set to become an unrestricted free agent this upcoming offseason, a recent article written by Michael Scotto of The Athletic revealed that the forward should get quite a […]

The Philadelphia 76ers have been on a roll over the last couple of weeks working their way up the standings on a current 10-game win streak. It has pushed them into the fourth spot in the Eastern Conference standings in position to possibly secure home-court advantage in the first round of the playoffs. They have […]

Following Saturday night’s 110-109 overtime loss to the Brooklyn Nets, Miami Heat big man Hassan Whiteside was fined an undisclosed amount of money for going on an explative-filled rant. According to most reports, he was upset about his playing time (or the lack thereof). Now, with a bit of time to cool off, the former […]

Brooklyn Nets center Jahlil Okafor has had a tough last couple of years finding playing time, despite his talents. Now only two weeks close to the start of his offseason, the 6-foot-11 big man will have to face a murky market for his services, lacking the routine playing time to market himself to NBA teams. […]

The Brooklyn Nets’ loss to the Detroit Pistons on Sunday night turned sour as the game got testier, trailing 13 points in the final seconds of the third quarter when enforcer Quincy Acy and All-Star center Andre Drummond got into a heated altercation. In fact, Acy even made inadvertent contact with a referee, and both players […]

Anthony Joshua unified the heavyweight titles with a unanimous decision win over Joseph Parker on Saturday in a match that did not live up to the hype in terms of action. Andre Drummond and Quincy Acy tried to top that bout on the basketball court, but that, too, looked more pathetic than exciting. Drummond and […]

For the first time in the young career of Brooklyn Nets point guard D’Angelo Russell, the 22-year old rising star recorded a triple-double on Friday night against the Toronto Raptors. Although the Nets fell 116-112 on the road to the Eastern Conference’s top seed in the Raptors, Russell had himself a great all-around game with […]

A stubborn rim, a ladder, and two bewildered NBA teams all conspire to create perhaps one of the weirdest moments in the league so far this season at Air Canada Centre Friday. The action between the Brooklyn Nets and the Toronto Raptors had to be put on hold during one extended moment in the game […]

On a Brooklyn Nets team that had promise at the start of the season but is now heading for a disappointing win-loss record, Joe Harris has actually been a bright spot. Harris, who played on the 2015 Cleveland Cavaliers team that made the Finals, is averaging career highs in practically every category. He’s averaging 10.1 points […]

Julius Randle has brought his coming out games to the forefront at the right time, blossoming into the athletic, dynamic power forward the Los Angeles Lakers hoped to make out of him on draft night in 2014. Though it could be too late for the fourth-year man out of Kentucky. The Lakers have put in […]

The Brooklyn Nets might have a lone shining spot in this 21-46 season, a diamond found in the rough in the form of Spencer Dinwiddie, an outlier that was supposed to be a fill-in for Jeremy Lin after his season-ending injury, but one that turned into one of the most promising talents in the franchise. […]

If there’s anyone in the NBA right now that understands what Kenny Atkinson and the Brooklyn Nets are going through, it’s Philadelphia 76ers head coach Brett Brown. Having endured tough losing seasons in Philly as well, he just continued to “trust the process,” until reaching this year, where they have emerged as a team bound […]

D’Angelo Russell’s stint with the Los Angeles Lakers may not have ended the way he had envisioned it, but he still feels privileged to have played for one of the most storied franchises in the NBA. The Brooklyn Nets guard can also consider himself lucky to have had the opportunity to play alongside Kobe Bryant, […]