nets Page 21 - Sports News, Headlines & Highlights
We Rank the NBA's Coaching Carousel Openings
We have arrived at “that” point in the NBA season. ...
Hornets Radio Play-by-Play Guy Somehow Tweets N-Word by Mistake
How do you accidentally type the N-word?...
Kyrie Irving Keeps Walking the Walk
In a time when many in the sports world are using their platforms to be on the right — and wrong — sides of history, Kyrie Irving has been doing the work, despite not having played a game since February....
NBA Restart: Eastern Conference Predictions
The official NBA restart is inching closer and closer....
Vince Carter Will Be Remembered For More Than His Ridiculous, Insane, Outrageous, Thunderous, Posterizing, High-Flying Dunks
I was around 6 years old when my parents bought me my first basketball magazine....
The Nets Getting Coronavirus Tests Shows Just How Screwed Up Our Society Is
Will Kevin Durant and the Brooklyn Nets be a rallying cry as the sick and the poor rise up to eat the rich? ...
Yeah, The Optics Suck, But Athletes Getting Tested Went A Long Way to Waking People Up
While it surely is a sign of something broken in our society that NBA teams like the Brooklyn Nets and celebrities are able to be tested for coronavirus, even when showing no symptoms, while much of the general public cannot get access to testing, the problem to focus on is much more the latter than...
If Only Kevin Durant Had Beaten The Shit Out Of Draymond Green
Golden State Warriors fans are in the process of suffering through a rotation anchored by the legendary Eric Paschall, the even more legendary Omari Spellman, and the beyond legendary Ky Bowman. Stephen Curry (out indefinitely with a Rice Krispie’d hand) and Klay Thompson (waiting for various knee l...
Ja Morant Scores 30, Stuffs Kyrie Irving, Will Be A Lot Of Fun On The Grizzlies
Big fat dunks, pinpoint dimes, and the gumption to go at Kyrie Irving in a scoring duel and win? Ja Morant delivered on all those fronts Sunday as the Memphis Grizzlies took out the Brooklyn Nets, 134-133. Based on Morant’s 30-point, nine-assist romp, the No. 2 pick out of Murray State intends to re...
Hoo Boy, Kyrie Irving Put On A Show In His Nets Debut
It’s going to be a season of transition in Brooklyn, while the Nets wait for Kevin Durant’s shredded Achilles tendon to heal and for all their big free-agency wheeling and dealing to finally come together. For now, Nets fans will still enjoy the nightly thrill of watching one of the sport’s most ent...
Kyrie Irving Takes Break From Eternal Quest For Enlightenment To Comment On Pro-Hong Kong Protests
Between settling into a new offense and coyly reciting monologues from Altered Carbon in his spare time, Kyrie Irving has had few opportunities to comment on Daryl Morey’s pro-Hong Kong tweet and the reckoning with the NBA’s malleable corporate politics that followed. The league canceled news confer...
Report: Spencer Dinwiddie Gives Me A Migraine With Complex-Sounding Contract Conversion Plans
Spencer Dinwiddie, a cool basketball man, is planning to sell bonds secured by his contract with the Brooklyn Nets in order to raise up-front investment capital, or anyway that is how I have chosen to make sense of this gobbledygook-ass report from Shams Charania of The Athletic....
Kevin Durant Wishes To Separate Himself From "The Machine," But Plugs Into It Daily
J.R. Moehringer has a rich profile of Kevin Durant, in the middle of his Achilles rehab, up at the Wall Street Journal today. The new Brooklyn Net drains deep threes in a swimming pool, explains the decay of his relationship with Oklahoma City, details the purported offensive limitations of the Gold...
Report: Nets' Rodions Kurucs Arrested For Choking Ex-Girlfriend
Brooklyn Nets forward Rodions Kurucs was arrested on Tuesday and charged in Brooklyn Criminal Court with attacking his then-girlfriend earlier this summer, per the New York Daily News....
IIHF Bans Evgeny Kuznetsov For Four Years After Positive Cocaine Test
The International Ice Hockey Federation announced today that Washington Capitals center Evgeny Kuznetsov will be suspended from international hockey for four years after testing positive for cocaine in late May. The statement says:...
Terry Rozier, After Celebrating Becoming A Knick, Upon Offer To Not Play For The Knicks: "We Gonna Have To Take That One"
After the NBA draft lottery, dread seeped into my bones and I predicted the Knicks’ pipe dreams of Kevin Durant, Kyrie Irving, and Zion Williamson would turn into Bobby Portis, Terry Rozier, and DeMarcus Cousins. The Knicks did strike out in spectacular fashion, although that specific forecast went ...
Kevin Durant, In His Cheesiest Cheesebutt Voice: "Shit Happens"
Kevin Durant has a long, long way to go before he’s back on an NBA floor, and likely has far further to go before he’s anything like the player he was before he ruptured his Achilles tendon in Game 5 of the NBA Finals. The circumstances that led to the catastrophic injury were highly suspect, but wh...
The Warriors Will Retire The Jersey Of A Guy Who Dumped Them For Kyrie Irving
Having lost Kevin Durant in free agency to Kyrie Irving and the Brooklyn Nets, the Golden State Warriors announced Monday that Durant’s number-35 jersey will be effectively retired, for as long as Joe Lacob is in control of the team:...
Treat The Knicks Like What They Are
Kevin Durant could have chosen better than to make Brooklyn the new center of the universe. For example, he could have joined Kawhi Leonard in Toronto and taken on the entire National Hockey League at its very core by making basketball Canada’s new national pastime. I mean, it’s one thing to kick th...
Kevin Durant Is Joining The Nets And DeAndre Jordan Will Be There Too
The Brooklyn Nets might have just launched themselves to the top of the Eastern Conference thanks to two very powerful Woj bombs....