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Approaching the 2024 NBA trade deadline, the Brooklyn Nets stand at a critical juncture. Sporting a disappointing 20-30 record, the team faces the urgent need for strategic transactions to salvage their season and build for the future. With swirling trade rumors and mounting pressure, the Nets’ front office confronts a pivotal moment in their pursuit […]

After a shaky start to the 2023-24 NBA season, the Phoenix Suns are slowly beginning to find their groove as the second half of the campaign rolls along. Much of Phoenix’s early-season struggles had to do with injuries as both Devin Booker and especially Bradley Beal missed a handful of games to begin the year. […]

There is just about a week before the 2024 NBA trade deadline and a lot of eyes will be on what the Los Angeles Lakers will do to improve their team amidst their struggles over the past month. The Lakers have been engulfed in trade rumors, mostly with Atlanta Hawks guard Dejounte Murray. In the […]

trade Royce O’Neale is reportedly on the trade block for the Brooklyn Nets and a number of contenders are reportedly interested in acquiring the veteran forward ahead of the 2024 NBA trade deadline. According to Brett Siegel of ClutchPoints, the Milwaukee Bucks and Phoenix Suns are among the two teams looking to trade for the […]

The Milwaukee Bucks recently fired first-time coach Adrian Griffin and tapped on veteran coach Doc Rivers as his replacement to man the sidelines for this Giannis Antetokounmpo and Damian Lillard-led team. The coaching swap likely signals the Bucks are gearing up for changes ahead of the second half of the season. As constructed, this Milwaukee […]

The Milwaukee Bucks showed first-year head coach Adrian Griffin the door on Tuesday afternoon after just 43 games with the team and reportedly replaced him with NBA champion coach Doc Rivers the next day. The news came somewhat as a shock considering the Bucks had the second-best record in the Eastern Conference at 30-13 and […]

The Brooklyn Nets secured an impressive win over the Los Angeles Lakers on Friday night, but followed that up by improbably allowing 22 unanswered points to the Los Angeles Clippers on Sunday afternoon. The Nets blew a 15-point lead entering the fourth quarter, got outscored in the fourth 41-15, and wound up losing the game […]

The Brooklyn Nets have fallen to 10th place in the Eastern Conference amid a 3-13 stretch over their last 16 games. With the Feb. 8. trade deadline approaching, the team is expected to field trade offers for sought-after veterans, namely Dorian Finney-Smith and Royce O’Neale. The Cleveland Cavaliers have presented themselves as a suitor for […]

A strong start to the new year has the Cleveland Cavaliers sitting in fifth place in the Eastern Conference standings. Amid plenty of rumors about the team trading away Donovan Mitchell, there is one line of thinking that not only should the Cavs not deal Mitchell, but they should be looking to the Brooklyn Nets […]

Trade season is nearly upon us, and for the Brooklyn Nets, that means deciding on the futures of several key veterans. Among those names are Dorian Finney-Smith and Royce O’Neale, two players who should draw interest from numerous contenders ahead of the trade deadline. The Los Angeles Lakers are on that list, according to The […]

The middle is the absolute worst place to be in the NBA. Unfortunately for the Brooklyn Nets, that’s where they currently find themselves this 2023-24 NBA season. As currently constructed, this Nets roster is not capable of competing and making a deep push in the postseason. At best, they should top out as a low-end […]

Despite being tied for the third-best record in the Eastern Conference at 7-4, the Milwaukee Bucks have tipped off their 2023-24 NBA season in rather underwhelming fashion. There were certainly lofty expectations for the Bucks when they landed Damian Lillard via trade this offseason and paired him alongside Giannis Antetokounmpo. However, Milwaukee hasn’t met those […]

After reaching the Western Conference Finals in 2022, the Dallas Mavericks took a major regression the following year and completely missed the 2023 NBA playoffs. A lot of factors went into why the Mavs failed to capitalize on what should have been a step forward. Dallas never really recovered from Jalen Brunson’s departure in free […]

World champion or not, nobody can deny that the Denver Nuggets were the best team in the best league in the world last season. Led by perhaps the best player in the world Nikola Jokic, the Nuggets dominated the 2023 NBA playoffs to capture their first championship in franchise history. Denver’s main core of Jokic, […]

The Denver Nuggets made history this past season by winning their first-ever NBA championship. However, based on head coach Michael Malone’s comments at their championship parade, it seems like Denver isn’t satisfied with getting just one. To do that, the Nuggets might need to pull off another offseason trade to further beef up their roster […]

The Chicago Bulls, more likely than not, will be missing Lonzo Ball for the entirety of the 2023-24 season. The young floor general has suffered setback after setback after suffering an injury to his knee on January 2022, and he hasn’t been able to return to action since. However, there is a silver lining to […]

The 2023 NBA draft could be one of the most active trade nights in recent memory. With two first-round picks (Nos. 21, 22) and several valued veterans, league sources expect the Brooklyn Nets to be at the center of the action. The Nets are said to be “extremely active” in trade conversations with their back-to-back […]

The Brooklyn Nets have cornered the market on 3-and-D wings following the trades of Kevin Durant and Kyrie Irving. With a rotation that includes Mikal Bridges, Cam Johnson, Dorian Finney-Smith, Royce O’Neale and Joe Harris, opposing teams are inquiring about the availability of two Brooklyn veterans, according to the Ringer: “Multiple reports have already said […]

Many questioned the timing of Royce O’Neale’s trade to the Brooklyn Nets last summer. News of the deal broke just minutes after Kevin Durant’s bombshell trade request. Through a season that saw Kyrie Irving suspended and later traded alongside Durant, Ben Simmons sidelined, and a slew of new faces enter the fold, O’Neale was one […]

After a successful 2022-23 season, the Sacramento Kings may consider using their No. 24 pick in the 2023 NBA Draft to add more win-now pieces to their promising core led by De’Aaron Fox and Domantas Sabonis. The Kings took the 2022 NBA Champion Golden State Warriors to seven games and came close to knocking them […]

The Brooklyn Nets have several veterans who could be packing their bags this summer. Royce O’Neale, Dorian Finney-Smith and Spencer Dinwiddie should all have trade value to contenders, and depending on the direction Brooklyn takes, could be on the move. O’Neale increased his trade value the most out of those three during the 2022-23 campaign. […]

The Brooklyn Nets’ maddening, tiresome, wonky 2022-23 season is over. They failed to win a playoff game in their first-round series against the Philadelphia 76ers but fought as hard as they could after being so hastily assembled at the trade deadline. Now, the front office has to get back to work to build a quality […]

The Brooklyn Nets have played the Philadelphia 76ers hard in each of their first three games of their first-round playoff series. Despite that, the Nets find themselves down in a 3-0 hole that they almost certainly won’t be able to climb out of. In Game 3, Brooklyn likely threw away their only shot of finding […]

One question stood out over all the rest for the new-look Brooklyn Nets after trading Kevin Durant and Kyrie Irving: who would step up and produce in crunch time? Mikal Bridges and Spencer Dinwiddie have taken the reins as late-game ball handlers for Brooklyn. However, it has been Royce O’Neale, the Nets’ offseason acquisition from […]

The Brooklyn Nets will have four rotation players returning to their lineup ahead of their Friday night matchup against the Minnesota Timberwolves. Listed on the injury report for various maladies, guard Spencer Dinwiddie, wing Royce O’Neale, forward Cameron Johnson, and center Nic Claxton are available for tonight’s game, per HoopsHype’s Alberto De Roa. This is […]

The Brooklyn Nets will be severely shorthanded when they travel to Milwaukee to take on the Bucks Thursday. Nic Claxton (right thumb sprain/left Achilles tendinopathy), Cam Johnson (right knee soreness) and Royce O’Neale (left knee soreness) will all be out for the matchup. Claxton has been among the top defenders in the league while manning […]

The Brooklyn Nets fought back from a 17-point deficit to pull within two in the last minute Sunday at Golden State. The majority of that comeback came on the back of Kyrie Irving, who finished with 38 points on 12-of-22 shooting from the field and 5-of-7 from 3-point range. However, in the game’s biggest moment, […]

The Brooklyn Nets are expected to post their first clean injury report of the season heading into a matchup with Toronto Friday. Royce O’Neale was the only player on the injury report for Monday’s Nets win over Washington, missing the Nets’ last two games due to personal reasons. Head coach Jacque Vaughn said Wednesday that […]

The Brooklyn Nets blew a 12-point lead Friday in Indiana to drop to 9-11 on the season. After an offensive explosion that allowed the Nets to gain control early, Brooklyn’s defense faltered down the stretch, allowing 71 points on 21 of 40 (52.5 percent) shooting in the second half. The Nets now rank 20th in […]

There has been a ton of drama surrounding the Brooklyn Nets in recent weeks. The Kyrie Irving suspension. The Steve Nash firing. Questions surrounding Ben Simmons’ commitment. Kevin Durant putting his teammates on blast as he doubled down on the reasons behind his trade request. But for at least one night, the Nets will be […]

The Brooklyn Nets open 2022 training camp on Sept. 27. The team moves into this season with several additions poised to provide a shakeup to the rotation. With that, here are three training camp battles to watch over the coming weeks. 3. Joe Harris vs. Royce O’Neale Ben Simmons, Kyrie Irving and Kevin Durant are […]

Training camp is just three weeks away as the new-look Brooklyn Nets inch closer to their 2022-2023 campaign. Things have been relatively quiet on the Nets front since the Markieff Morris and Yuta Watanabe signings last week. With that, I took some questions from NetsWorld in the first edition of my Nets mailbag. Who do […]

Royce O’Neale, who was traded from the Utah Jazz to the Brooklyn Nets this offseason, has no mercy … even on his mom. The new Nets forward was with his mother in his latest camp, and while the O’Neal matriarch was probably looking to just bond and have a moment with his son, what he […]

The Utah Jazz made one of the biggest moves in the 2022 NBA offseason by trading Rudy Gobert, but did they also make a misstep or two? The Jazz were unquestionably victorious over the 2022 NBA offseason. They wielded some crazy magic in the Gobert deal because they received a king’s ransom that was historically […]

The Utah Jazz partly blew up their core last week, trading Rudy Gobert to the Minnesota Timberwolves for an absolute haul and also shipping Royce O’Neale off to the Brooklyn Nets. These moves left Donovan Mitchell scratching his head. According to Brian Windhorst, who spoke on his Hoop Collective Podcast, Mitchell approached the front office […]

While the Brooklyn Nets deal with Kevin Durant’s trade request, they are also making moves to tweak their roster. According to ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski, they have acquired Utah Jazz forward Royce O’Neale in exchange for a 2023 first-round draft pick. The Nets are acquiring the Jazz's Royce O'Neal in a trade for a 2023 first-round […]

The Utah Jazz suffered a significant loss with Joe Ingles suffering a season-ending torn ACL. Ingles is an integral part of the Jazz and his absence will be felt. They are 30-21 on the season, which places them in the fourth spot in the Western Conference. Donovan Mitchell and Rudy Gobert have played well and […]

The Utah Jazz did a great job in the regular season, locking in 52 wins to earn the NBA’s best record for the first time in franchise history. Things, however, didn’t pan out for them in the NBA Playoffs, which is not an indication of their underperformance. Rather, it’s a signal that they need to […]

Utah Jazz guard Donovan Mitchell wasn’t having it. With him still sidelined due to a sprained ankle, it seems he has loads of extra free time to scroll through social media. And one post particularly piqued Mitchell’s interest. Veteran ESPN writer Kevin Pelton bared his choices for the All-Defensive Teams this season. At first glance, […]