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Brooklyn Nets 2020-21

G-Fafif Dec 22 2020 07:46 PM

The Durant era soars to a flying start.

MFS62 Dec 23 2020 05:53 AM Re: Brooklyn Nets 2020-21

Insert a big smiling emoji here. I'm fahklempt. Later

G-Fafif Dec 26 2020 04:38 PM Re: Brooklyn Nets 2020-21

https://twitter.com/markpherrmann/status/1342656349591793665?s=21

MFS62 Dec 28 2020 01:07 PM Re: Brooklyn Nets 2020-21

Not only did they lose to Charlotte, but Spencer Dinwiddie partially tore his ACL in the second half. I knew things looked too good. Now Caris Levert will have to move up from sixth man leading the second team to first team. LAter

Frayed Knot Dec 28 2020 01:57 PM Re: Brooklyn Nets 2020-21

And, let's face it, it's only a matter of time until the first (probably of several) Kylie Irving meltdown.

ashie62 Dec 28 2020 05:49 PM Re: Brooklyn Nets 2020-21

Irving & Durant sitting out the back to back.

kcmets Dec 28 2020 06:00 PM Re: Brooklyn Nets 2020-21

They need to go back to the ABA uni look and lose the zombie look.

MFS62 Dec 29 2020 06:10 AM Re: Brooklyn Nets 2020-21

=kcmets post_id=52883 time=1609203615 user_id=53] They need to go back to the ABA uni look and lose the zombie look.

Agree. I wear my sweat shirt and knit hat with the Nets red, white and blue ABA ball logo when it really gets cold.

Later

kcmets Dec 29 2020 06:11 AM Re: Brooklyn Nets 2020-21

The Bed Stuy Raiders

MFS62 Jan 13 2021 02:21 PM Re: Brooklyn Nets 2020-21 Edited 1 time(s), most recently on Jan 13 2021 06:43 PM

James Harden has reportedly been traded to the Nets. No details yet. Later

G-Fafif Jan 13 2021 02:23 PM Re: Brooklyn Nets 2020-21

https://twitter.com/wojespn/status/1349464741882814466?s=21

G-Fafif Jan 13 2021 02:24 PM Re: Brooklyn Nets 2020-21

https://twitter.com/wojespn/status/1349465888492318720?s=21 Plus LeVert is sent to Pacers by Rockets.

MFS62 Jan 13 2021 02:30 PM Re: Brooklyn Nets 2020-21

I don't like giving up Allen and LeVert - it leaves the team with no center and no depth. (And no good young guys) And 4 picks? Even though they are swaps, didn't they learn anything from the disasterous trade with the Celtics? Later

G-Fafif Jan 13 2021 03:25 PM Re: Brooklyn Nets 2020-21

There is apparently no tomorrow in today's NBA.

Frayed Knot Jan 13 2021 04:21 PM Re: Brooklyn Nets 2020-21

Now if they only had some decent point guard, like say Kyrie Irving, on their team.

G-Fafif Jan 13 2021 05:28 PM Re: Brooklyn Nets 2020-21

I'll buy the bright side outlook. Superstars typically continue to play at a superstar level at age 31 and 32—the seasons that matter to Brooklyn now, as Harden is under contract for this season and next (plus a player option in 2022-23). They drop off at the ages the Nets called upon Garnett and Pierce. https://www.theringer.com/nba/2021/1/13/22229988/james-harden-trade-kevin-garnett-paul-pierce

ashie62 Jan 16 2021 05:32 PM Re: Brooklyn Nets 2020-21

Kyrie has been fined $50,000 and docked two games pay for attending a party against league protocol.. It is unrelated but I don't believe Steve Nash is long for this job. They look terrible. Does not help him that Mike D'Antoni is the bench coach and in waiting.

G-Fafif Jan 16 2021 06:30 PM Re: Brooklyn Nets 2020-21

1-0 in the Harden Era. https://twitter.com/nbahistory/status/1350615005989892097?s=21 Durant with 42 in the win.

MFS62 Jan 17 2021 06:37 AM Re: Brooklyn Nets 2020-21

I think he might be good. Later

MFS62 Jan 17 2021 10:20 AM Re: Brooklyn Nets 2020-21

Story about Harden's record breaking performance in the Kuwait Times. https://news.kuwaittimes.net/website/harden-posts-triple-double-sets-nba-record-in-brooklyn-nets-debut/ Guess he's important there, too. Later

G-Fafif Jan 21 2021 11:33 AM Re: Brooklyn Nets 2020-21

Herb Turetzky, official scorer since the Nets were the New Jersey Americans, continues to be the best of basketball stories. https://www.si.com/nba/2021/01/21/herb-turetzky-mr-net-official-scorer-daily-cover

MFS62 Jan 21 2021 02:49 PM Re: Brooklyn Nets 2020-21

Turetzky is a treasure, and a continued topic and contributor to the ABA Remembered Facebook page that I frequent. Later

ashie62 Jan 21 2021 03:55 PM Re: Brooklyn Nets 2020-21

I still miss the red white and blue ball I was happy to get one at the supermarket even if it was a beachball.

MFS62 Jan 23 2021 07:26 AM Re: Brooklyn Nets 2020-21

There's no I in team, and there's no D in Nets. Later

ashie62 Jan 26 2021 10:57 AM Re: Brooklyn Nets 2020-21

Can't see them getting over the top without a big. Can we say Andre Drummond?

MFS62 Jan 27 2021 03:31 PM Re: Brooklyn Nets 2020-21

Caris LeVert said getting traded from the Nets actually saved his life, because he underwent a medical examination showing he had renal carcenoma. I had the same thing, and I'm glad his surgery was successful. https://sports.yahoo.com/m/6c5cd229-775c-3fff-8b18-210d57b5ea56/levert-has-successful-cancer.html Best wishes for continued recovery, Caris. And we'll miss you on the Nets Later

ashie62 Feb 17 2021 03:49 PM Re: Brooklyn Nets 2020-21

No Kyrie, no Durant. Down 24 in the third Harden goes off. Here are the highlights [YOUTUBE]https://youtu.be/Wp1NOm3k0C8[/YOUTUBE]

ashie62 Feb 23 2021 06:29 AM Re: Brooklyn Nets 2020-21

I thought the Nets might phone it in against the Clips on the last day of a west coast swing. Nope, Nets led the entire game save for LA's late run. Nets by two. Harden 37/11/7 Irving 28/4/8

G-Fafif Feb 23 2021 08:24 PM Re: Brooklyn Nets 2020-21

Damn, they're looking good. The vibe is almost scary.

MFS62 Feb 24 2021 06:03 AM Re: Brooklyn Nets 2020-21

The road to a title goes through Toronto. They have had troubles with them for years, even when the Nets have been the "better team". Until they can beat the Raptors, I can't get a warm, fuzzy feeling about them. Later

G-Fafif Mar 01 2021 09:10 PM Re: Brooklyn Nets 2020-21

https://twitter.com/markpherrmann/status/1366599438043672578?s=21

ashie62 Mar 02 2021 05:58 AM Re: Brooklyn Nets 2020-21

No doubt the Nets struggle with Toronto. They played them last season in the bubble playoffs without Kyrie, Durant and Harden. Maybe the prior trends do not apply now, I hope.

G-Fafif Mar 09 2021 06:19 AM Re: Brooklyn Nets 2020-21

The Nets, of course, are an experiment. This is true in the moment, in a roster with Kevin Durant, Kyrie Irving, James Harden and now Blake Griffin, four men chasing rings and personal fulfillment; in the education of first-year coach in Steve Nash, the former MVP-turned-vibe master; in the quest to win a championship while playing minimal defense. They are a team of brilliant stars and iconoclastic charm, assembled in the media hothouse of New York, unleashed during a raging pandemic, performing on the fly in mostly empty arenas, the perfect encapsulation of the modern NBA: a super team with stars who bullied their way together, a front office that saw itself as a startup and acted accordingly, a brand that exists as compelling internet content despite questionable emotional investment, a team that could — despite it all — win a title in an era when rings are the only metric that matters. Overall a little anthropological in tone and a bit condescending at base, but still a compelling Nets read. https://theathletic.com/2427544/2021/03/09/brooklyn-nets-experiment-kyrie-irving-kevin-durant-wilt-chamberlain/

MFS62 Mar 09 2021 06:26 AM Re: Brooklyn Nets 2020-21

The article omitted the one thing basic about them that they could have said, they are a fun team to watch. Entertainment, bay-bee. Later

MFS62 Mar 15 2021 09:55 AM Re: Brooklyn Nets 2020-21

A happy shout-out to ex-Net Caris LeVert for making it back from renal carcinoma. https://www.aol.com/pacers-caris-levert-scores-13-144348160.html Less than two months after having cancer surgery, Caris LeVert of the Indiana Pacers was back on the court Saturday night, and he even contributed to the Pacers' 122-111 win over the Phoenix Suns. LeVert, 26, had surgery in January to remove a small cancerous mass on his left kidney, but made his miraculous return to basketball Saturday night with 13 points and six assists in 27 minutes. While LeVert admitted to ESPN that he struggled with "heavy legs," he was more focused on just being out there and playing again. I didn't feel anywhere near this well so soon after I had the same operation. Later

Frayed Knot Mar 17 2021 06:43 PM Re: Brooklyn Nets 2020-21

One-time NJ Net Shawn Bradley, now 48, was paralyzed recently when hit by a car when riding his bicycle near his home in Utah. The 7' 6" Bradley was the #2 overall pick by the 76'ers in 1993 and played for Philly, the Nets for two seasons, and the Mavericks.

ashie62 Mar 17 2021 09:21 PM Re: Brooklyn Nets 2020-21

Harden goes it alone for 40/10/11 for their 8th straight road win. Nicholas Claxton seems to have a future here. lotta talent.

G-Fafif Apr 11 2021 08:33 AM Re: Brooklyn Nets 2020-21

The appearance of a Dr. J Nets piece, like this one by Harvey Aragon, generally means things are going terribly or terrifically. Glad it's the latter for a change. Kevin Loughery and Julius Erving share a city, Atlanta, a golf club and an emotional connection to a basketball allegory told inharmoniously in three distinct parts — what was, what might have been and what now has become. In other words: the history of the Nets, from Long Island to New Jersey to Brooklyn. Inevitably, wistfully, Loughery's conversation with Erving centers on Part 2, the potentially grand Nassau Coliseum stage that was dismantled just before the curtain was to rise on the N.B.A. debut of Erving and the Nets. “I always talk to him about what we might have done,” Loughery, who coached the developing legend of Dr. J. to two A.B.A. titles and stayed on to guide the remains of the Nets after the financially troubled franchise sold the rights to Erving, the world's most electrifying player, to the Philadelphia 76ers on the eve of the 1976-77 season. Loughery added in a telephone interview: “What haunts you is that when we had him in the A.B.A. he was the best he ever was. The last A.B.A. series against Denver, when we won that second title, that was the best series I've ever seen anyone play.” https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/11/sports/basketball/nba-nets-julius-erving.html

G-Fafif Apr 12 2021 01:55 PM Re: Brooklyn Nets 2020-21

Real life intrudes on fun and games. https://twitter.com/nbapr/status/1381695140268535816?s=21

MFS62 Apr 15 2021 01:20 PM Re: Brooklyn Nets 2020-21

15 year veteran LaMarcus Aldridge is retiring from the game after experiencing irregular heartbeat during a game. https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nba/news/lamarcus-aldridge-retirement-nets-nba-players-react/sm6c38nkj8ky1nws9v1dhsgts Later

G-Fafif Apr 27 2021 09:35 PM Re: Brooklyn Nets 2020-21

Playoff spot clinched.

MFS62 Apr 28 2021 06:44 AM Re: Brooklyn Nets 2020-21

=G-Fafif post_id=62305 time=1619580904 user_id=55] Playoff spot clinched.

Even sweeter that they did it against Toronto.

I was nervous when they fell behind their old nemesis (who are having a lousy year), but they closed it out strong.



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G-Fafif May 03 2021 07:35 PM Re: Brooklyn Nets 2020-21

[TWEET]https://twitter.com/newyorker/status/1389220074213498880[/TWEET]

batmagadanleadoff May 04 2021 08:29 AM Re: Brooklyn Nets 2020-21

[TWEET]https://twitter.com/newyorker/status/1389220074213498880[/TWEET] Ulriksen also drew the Syndergaard New Yorker cover. [FIMG=444]https://media.newyorker.com/photos/5fd254e311a46dca0860682f/master/w_3150,h_4300,c_limit/2016_09_26_Ulriksen_Mets.jpg[/FIMG]

G-Fafif May 17 2021 05:46 AM Re: Brooklyn Nets 2020-21

2 seed clinched. And this... [tweet]https://twitter.com/NBA/status/1394088638384943107[/tweet]

G-Fafif May 17 2021 05:53 AM Re: Brooklyn Nets 2020-21

Kristian Winfield breaks it down in the News. Blake Griffin jokingly took credit for The Play. In his defense, it was his wild behind-the-back pass that set the tone for showtime in Brooklyn. “Listen, I don't like to pat myself on the back, but I did get that thing started,” Griffin deadpanned, before conceding: “I don't want to take credit for it. Those guys did it. I was just kind of orchestrating from behind.” The Cavaliers had an offensive breakdown to end the second quarter with the ball slipping out of Damyean Dotson's hands, off of former Net Jarrett Allen, almost out of bounds. Cavs forward Cedi Osman raced to save the ball, grabbed it with one hand, off-balance, and launched it out to the three-point line. That's where Nets guard Mike James inserted himself into the play, knocking the live jump ball out of Cavs forward Dean Wade's hands, right to Griffin. “You can see that play forming. It felt like it was laid up on a platter for us,” Durant said. “We got a good stop, good deflection, Blake was able to get it out quick … and then boom.” Griffin caught the ball with one hand, spun, then with the same hand, threw a behind the back pass up the floor to start a Nets fast break. “I tried to just get it out of my hands as fast as possible,” he recalled, “and those guys did the rest.” Kyrie Irving cut across the middle of the floor and picked off Griffin's wild pass, then touch-passed it to Mike James who then made the decision of a lifetime. Instead of laying the ball up over one defender, or throwing a regular pass, or even a regular alley-oop to the trailing Durant, he threw a pass off the backboard. In a real game. With playoff implications. Only up nine points. “My instinct was to throw it off the glass, but I think I was a little bit nervous,” he said. “If it would have been bad, I think my Nets career would have been over, but it worked out for me. “Kev caught it, and it worked.” Durant caught the pass and flushed it with two hands. Nets head coach Steve Nash said they couldn't have possibly practiced alley-oops off the backboard because there isn't enough time in-between games for teams to have real, active practice time, and when they do find it, off-the-glass alley-oops are not on the agenda. Durant also said there was no real signal from James to know the ball was going off the glass. “Mike is such a smart player. I think he saw me before he even caught the ball,” Durant said. “And I gave him a quick look and I saw him glance back at me. And that's all you really need.” https://www.nydailynews.com/sports/basketball/nets/ny-kevin-durant-alley-oop-cavs-20210517-2sj3zlmuvjhvxdfewvnky6xoiy-story.html

MFS62 May 17 2021 06:23 AM Re: Brooklyn Nets 2020-21

Just like they drew it up. I can watch that play over and over and over and ... you get the idea. Later

G-Fafif May 17 2021 06:49 AM Re: Brooklyn Nets 2020-21

=MFS62 post_id=64428 time=1621254201 user_id=60] I can watch that play over and over and over

It and I pretty much spent the night together.

Edgy MD May 17 2021 09:09 AM Re: Brooklyn Nets 2020-21

Two New York NBA teams in the top half of the playoff bracket could be something.

G-Fafif Jun 01 2021 08:27 PM Re: Brooklyn Nets 2020-21

Nets in five!

ashie62 Jun 01 2021 11:14 PM Re: Brooklyn Nets 2020-21

Milwaukee next.

G-Fafif Jun 02 2021 09:18 PM Re: Brooklyn Nets 2020-21

The whole thing felt like the old logic puzzle about the fox and the chicken and the grain, where you can ferry only two of them across the river at once, and if you pick the wrong pair one of them will be eaten — and somehow we were always picking the wrong pair of Nets. In a 72-game season, Brooklyn used 38 different starting lineups. It was chaos. By the end of the season, I had seen more rappers named “Lil” at Barclays Center (Lil' Kim, Lil Baby) than I had seen games featuring the Big 3. Sam Roberts drops phrases like James Harden drops threes. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/02/magazine/kevin-durant-brooklyn-nets.html

G-Fafif Jun 12 2021 12:47 PM Re: Brooklyn Nets 2020-21

Splendid article on the New York basketball vocal lineage that runs through Glickman, Albert and Eagle (with a nod to Breen). In the 1950s, a lot of people wanted to talk like Marty Glickman. Glickman was the greatest basketball announcer in the world, which is to say New York City. Glickman started calling Knicks games in 1946, the first year of the franchise. He rolled his eyes when he heard a moonlighting baseball announcer butcher a layup. “There was no technique, no attempt to catch the rhythm and flow of a game,” Glickman wrote. “I determined that I would be the basketball announcer.” As a teenager living in Manhattan Beach, Brooklyn, Albert was in the thrall of Glickman. Albert was working as a Knicks ball boy. He was so shy he surprised Glickman when he told him he wanted to be an announcer. Glickman gave him a job. “I was working for him when I was in high school,” says Albert. “I was actually his writer.” Sometimes, he sat next to Glickman during games, listening to his sound while he handed him commercials to read. “When you first start doing play-by-play,” Eagle tells me, “you open with a blank canvas, and you're instinctually trying to figure out your process. Often, your default mode is, ‘OK, well, what have I heard a lot in my life?'” The voice Albert had heard a lot was Glickman's. “I started to talk like Marty because I was around him so much,” says Albert. “I answered the phone like him.” https://www.theringer.com/2021/6/11/22529645/marv-albert-ian-eagle-nba-announcers-marty-glickman

MFS62 Jun 12 2021 01:03 PM Re: Brooklyn Nets 2020-21

Splendid article on the New York basketball vocal lineage that runs through Glickman, Albert and Eagle (with a nod to Breen). Since this is a Nets thread, I'll give it my Nets spin. Funny that there's no mention that Albert stole one of his most famous lines from Nets announcer John Sterling. Sterling used the term "from Downtown" when describing a three point shot. Because the NBA didn't have it yet, Sterling, announcing ABA games, did. Albert started using it when the leagues merged and the NBA adopted the three point shot. Other announcers may have used the term to describe a long shot, but it was Sterling who first used it for a three point shot. Both announcers were in New York at the time, so it is not a stretch to think Albert got it from Sterling. But he has never acknowledged it. Later

G-Fafif Jun 15 2021 09:18 PM Re: Brooklyn Nets 2020-21

KD = legend

MFS62 Jun 16 2021 05:42 AM Re: Brooklyn Nets 2020-21

=G-Fafif post_id=68047 time=1623813524 user_id=55]KD = legend

I'm fah'klempt. What a performance.

He was the Walt Frazier to Harden's Willis Reed.



Later

MFS62 Jun 18 2021 05:36 AM Re: Brooklyn Nets 2020-21

Joe Harris has been almost invisible in this series. He will have to show up as a third option to allow them to open up the offense in Game 7. Later

G-Fafif Jun 18 2021 09:54 AM Re: Brooklyn Nets 2020-21

It is too warm this morning for a sermon. Go home, keep the Commandments — and say a prayer for Joe Harris. —a priest in Brooklyn, you'd like to think.

MFS62 Jun 18 2021 11:27 AM Re: Brooklyn Nets 2020-21

It is too warm this morning for a sermon. Go home, keep the Commandments — and say a prayer for Joe Harris. —a priest in Brooklyn, you'd like to think. AMEN! Later

MFS62 Jun 20 2021 05:04 AM Re: Brooklyn Nets 2020-21

Last Night I Cried Erin Brockovich lost that class action suit. Indiana Jones dropped all the magic stones in the river. Dewey won! Last night I cried I cried for Drazen Petrovik , “Super” John Williamson and Wendell Ladner. I cried for Dr. J., Buck Williams and Billy Paultz, too. And I also cried for LaVern Tart, “Trooper” Washington and even…………. Kim Hughes. Last night I cried The team that used to play with a Red, White and Blue ball; a team that plays in a place from where you used to be able to see the Twin Towers, couldn't win the National Basketball Association Championship. Goliath threw the stones; they threw bricks. Goliath won. Last night I cried. Wait 'Till Next Year. Later

Willets Point Jun 20 2021 08:42 AM Re: Brooklyn Nets 2020-21

All because of Kevin Durant's toes. Hang in there, MFS62.

G-Fafif Jun 20 2021 10:49 AM Re: Brooklyn Nets 2020-21

Requiem for the Nets.

MFS62 Jun 20 2021 04:23 PM Re: Brooklyn Nets 2020-21

Requiem for the Nets. " The Nets are my team in a way no other team is my team besides the Mets." I feel the same. Hang in there, bro. Later

ashie62 Jun 21 2021 12:44 PM Re: Brooklyn Nets 2020-21

Requiem for the Nets. " The Nets are my team in a way no other team is my team besides the Mets." I feel the same. Hang in there, bro. Later Same here.