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The NBA season carries on with a week four matchup between the Brooklyn Nets and Miami Heat. Our NBA odds series continues with a Nets-Heat prediction and pick. Battling through injuries, the Brooklyn Nets’ resiliency has shined across their last two games. After losing Cam Thomas and Ben Simmons for some time due to injury, […]

The Brooklyn Nets moved over .500 with a 124-104 win over the Orlando Magic Tuesday night at Barclays Center. After leading by 15 in the first quarter, the Nets fell behind at the half but tightened the defensive screws late, holding the Magic to 6-of-21 shooting in the fourth quarter with four assists and four […]

The Brooklyn Nets had remained competitive in every game this season entering Friday’s in-season tournament matchup with the Boston Celtics. However, with Ben Simmons and Cam Thomas sidelined in Boston, that streak ended with a 121-107 loss before a sellout crowd at TD Garden. Here are three takeaways from Brooklyn’s decisive loss. Lonnie Walker continues […]

The Brooklyn Nets are receiving reinforcements for their first in-season tournament game in franchise history. After missing Wednesday’s win over the Miami Heat, Spencer Dinwiddie and Dennis Smith Jr. will return for Friday’s road matchup with the Chicago Bulls. Dinwiddie exited midway through Brooklyn’s win over the Charlotte Hornets on Monday. Smith Jr. was able […]

The 2023-24 NBA season is finally upon us with the defending champion Denver Nuggets fending off their Western Conference Finals foes Los Angeles Lakers in the opener that tipped off the new year. The fresh start does not devoid the league of NBA trade drama, with the James Harden situation in Philadelphia spearheading the headlines. […]

The Brooklyn Nets were a team without an identity at the end of the 2022-23 season. Following the trades of Kevin Durant and Kyrie Irving at last year’s deadline, Brooklyn welcomed Mikal Bridges, Cam Johnson and Dorian Finney-Smith, three defensive-minded wings, alongside a sizable guard in Spencer Dinwiddie. While the new-look roster possessed nowhere near […]

Spencer Dinwiddie has no qualms about accepting an off-ball role with a healthy Ben Simmons at point guard for the Brooklyn Nets this season. “This team goes as far as Ben and Mikal (Bridges) take it. We know who Ben can be when he’s healthy and in a good space mentally, and that’s what we […]

One may think that it would be logical for a team that had just lost stars like James Harden, Kevin Durant, and Kyrie Irving would hit the rebuild button. But, this is not what the Brooklyn Nets have in mind for the upcoming NBA season. The team is full of talent and looks to compete […]

The Brooklyn Nets aren’t concerned with individual accomplishments in 2023-24, but Spencer Dinwiddie said they are aware of how a winning season could personally benefit several players on the roster. Ben Simmons is attempting to rectify his NBA career amid a newfound bill of health, Mikal Bridges has All-Star expectations, and Cam Johnson has to […]

Brooklyn Nets guard Spencer Dinwiddie isn’t tolerating any more Ben Simmons slander. The nine-year veteran stood up for his teammate during an appearance on The Pat Bev Podcast Wednesday, calling Simmons “a far more athletic” version of Golden State’s Draymond Green: “Ben at his best form is a far more athletic Draymond Green with less […]

The Brooklyn Nets had a tumultuous 2022-23 NBA season, finishing with a 45-37 record. Despite the challenges they faced, including Kyrie Irving’s myriad controversies and Kevin Durant’s eventual departure, the Nets managed to navigate through the turmoil and make it to the postseason. However, as they enter the 2023-24 NBA training camp, five potential trade […]

The Brooklyn Nets open training camp next week as they turn the page to the first full season of the post-Kevin Durant, Kyrie Irving era. The bulk of Brooklyn’s roster will be comprised of returning contributors from the second half of 2022-23. With that, we breakdown the number one area each returning Net must improve […]

Although there is not nearly as much hype around the Brooklyn Nets as there has been in recent years, fans are still feeling optimistic going into the regular season. There is a solid core in place consisting of Mikal Bridges, Cam Johnson and Nic Claxton, with a balanced and underrated bench behind them. In fact, […]

Following the trades of Kevin Durant to the Phoenix Suns and Kyrie Irving to the Dallas Mavericks, the Brooklyn Nets became a team that was scrappy and played hard. They managed to make it to the playoffs but were swept in the first round by the Philadelphia 76ers. They have a nice collection of young […]

Who is the best player in the NBA? This is a question basketball fans debate every single year, and it’s one that often has no right answer. MVP candidates such as Nikola Jokic, Joel Embiid, Giannis Antetokounmpo, Stephen Curry and LeBron James are obviously amongst the best of the best, but one player cannot win […]

When asked by NBA TV’s Dennis Scott what the Brooklyn Nets need in order to take the next step as a franchise, veteran guard Spencer Dinwiddie doesn’t cite the growth of Mikal Bridges or the acquisition of Damian Lillard. Instead, Dinwiddie tells Scott that “the easy answer” is Ben Simmons, per Brian Lewis of the […]

The Brooklyn Nets have been faced with a tall task ahead of NBA free agency. One of the most important players on their roster, Cam Johnson, is set to become a free agent within the next 24 hours and the 6-foot-8 power forward is expected to garner significant interest from opposing teams in the coming […]

The Los Angeles Clippers appear prepared to enter the fifth year of the Kawhi Leonard-Paul George pairing in what is likely one last hurrah at an NBA Championship. As it stands, the team doesn’t have many options to improve their roster. For the most part, the improvements to the Clippers’ roster will come on the […]

Brooklyn Nets star Spencer Dinwiddie made headlines several weeks ago after he was involved in a full-blown war of words with former Washington Wizards teammate Kyle Kuzma. Kuz took exception to Dinwiddie’s statements about the latter’s time with the Wizards, and the pair got into a rather unsavory back-and-forth exchange that involved a lot of […]

Spencer Dinwiddie returned to the Brooklyn Nets as the team’s starting point guard following a midseason trade that sent Kyrie Irving to the Dallas Mavericks. Like his first stint in Brooklyn, Dinwiddie had his moments. He led the Nets to a thriller victory over the Minnesota Timberwolves on March 10, scoring or assisting on all […]

The new-look Brooklyn Nets were thoroughly outclassed during a first-round sweep at the hands of the Philadelphia 76ers. Two months after trading Kevin Durant and Kyrie Irving, the Nets head into the offseason well short of contender status with a roster full of high-end role players. The 13-15 record to close the season before the […]

Jacque Vaughn watched Mikal Bridges pull up for a jumper Sunday with the Brooklyn Nets trailing the Philadelphia 76ers by 11 in the final minutes of Game 4. His team was less than two minutes away from being swept in the first round for the second straight year. The shot came up short. Philadelphia collected […]

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 […]

The Brooklyn Nets need Spencer Dinwiddie to be much better if they’re going to have a shot against the high-powered Philadelphia 76ers. After averaging 17.3 points per game this season, Dinwiddie has scored 26 total through the first two games of the NBA playoffs series. The veteran has been unable to find his stroke from […]

When debating the most hostile playoff environments in sports, the City of Brotherly Love is at the forefront of the conversation. Yet one day ahead of Game 1 between the Brooklyn Nets and Philadelphia 76ers at Wells Fargo Center, Spencer Dinwiddie isn’t anticipating anything that Brooklyn hasn’t seen before. “As hostile as Philly is just […]

Spencer Dinwiddie took a lot of heat from Washington Wizards fans amid his beef with former teammate Kyle Kuzma. Apparently, the Brooklyn Nets star also wants all the smoke with Los Angeles Lakers fans. This is after Dinwiddie dragged Lakers icon Rick Fox in his latest round of slander against Kuzma. Naturally, LA supporters rallied […]

Brooklyn Nets star Spencer Dinwiddie recently took his beef with Kyle Kuzma a notch higher. This is after Dinwiddie decided to invoke Kobe Bryant, Shaquille O’Neal, and of all people, Rick Fox, in trying to insinuate that Kuzma got a bit of a free ride with his 2020 championship with LeBron James and the Los […]

There has been a lot of back of forth between Brooklyn Nets star Spencer Dinwiddie and Kyle Kuzma of late, and their Twitter beef has now escalated into what appears to be a full-on feud between these two former Washington Wizards teammates. It has now gotten to a point wherein Dinwiddie has had to invoke […]

Once upon a time the top storyline of the new-look Brooklyn Nets meeting the Philadelphia 76ers in the playoffs would have been Ben Simmons. However, the former number-one pick’s dynamic in a Philly playoff setting is a moot point since Brooklyn shut the big man down for the rest of the season due to a […]

The Washington Wizards failed to make it to the NBA Playoffs this season, but they’re still very well in the mainstream news cycle, thanks to the beef between Brooklyn Nets guard Spencer Dinwiddie and Wizards forward Kyle Kuzma finally erupting on Wednesday. There are only two sides to this quarrel, and it’s either you’re on […]

A Twitter beef has escalated the Washington Wizards’ Kyle Kuzma and the Brooklyn Nets’ Spencer Dinwiddie, and Golden State Warriors forward Draymond Green has made it clear whose side he’s picking. Earlier in the day, Green had this reaction when Kuzma came at Dinwiddie about the thing people always want to bring up for the […]

The Philadelphia 76ers and Brooklyn Nets are getting ready to play in the first round of the NBA Playoffs, and Spencer Dinwiddie has spent some time talking smack with Kyle Kuzma of the Washington Wizards. Kyle Kuzma of the Wizards sounded off in a thread regarding Spencer Dinwiddie of the Nets. Kuzma mentioned the amount […]

On Wednesday afternoon, the NBA’s weirdest, most vicious rivalry got even weirder and more vicious as Spencer Dinwiddie and Kyle Kuzma traded absolutely nuclear blows with each other. On an appearance on FanDuel TV’s show Run It Back, Dinwiddie unloaded on Kuzma, calling him out for missing the playoffs and casting doubt on Kuzma’s commitment […]

Washington Wizards forward Kyle Kuzma has been in a war of words with Brooklyn Nets guard Spencer Dinwiddie. While Dinwiddie looked to deliver a K.O. blow, Kuzma took things to the next level. Both sides have been arguing about each other’s skill and dedication to the game of basketball. When Kuzma caught wind of Dinwiddie’s […]

Brooklyn Nets player Spencer Dinwiddie addressed his Twitter beef with Kyle Kuzma, per FanDuel TV’s Run It Back. Dinwiddie provided a look back at the beef between the players, and then made a response. “What’s that thing Draymond (Green) just said, where he said ‘insecurity is loud,’” Dinwiddie said. “Basically, here’s what happened. We lost […]

The Brooklyn Nets are heading to the playoffs for the fifth consecutive season. With their 101-84 blowout of the Orlando Magic at Barclays Center Friday, Brooklyn clinched the Eastern Conference’s sixth seed and a first-round matchup with the Philadelphia 76ers. Expectations never shifted within the new-look Nets following the trades of Kevin Durant and Kyrie […]

Two months after rejoining the Brooklyn Nets, Spencer Dinwiddie traveled to Detroit on the night before his 30th birthday with a chance to pull the Nets within one game of clinching a playoff birth. The veteran answered the call, dishing out a career-high 16 assists in a 123-108 win over his former team. .@SDinwiddie_25 was […]

The Brooklyn Nets fell 107-102 to the Minnesota Timberwolves Tuesday in a key matchup as they battle to clinch the Eastern Conference’s sixth seed. Spencer Dinwiddie had one of his best games since rejoining the Nets, scoring a game-high 30 points on 13-of-24 shooting with six assists. However, the floor general’s brilliant performance will be […]

Nets head coach Jacque Vaughn faced a monumental task following the trades of Kevin Durant and Kyrie Irving. With his top two scorers out the door and four new players entering the starting lineup, he had to decipher the winning formula for a new-look Brooklyn squad that still held playoff aspirations. On the court, a […]