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And the Future Is...Cloudy

ESPN Insider ranks all 30 teams' future prospects and the Nets fare no better than middle of the pack. Peering into the future, defined as the 2010-11, 2011-12 and 2012-13 seasons, Chad Ford and John Hollinger put the Nets at #13. They assume Brooklyn will fall through, but if Mikhail Prokhorov takes over, the ranking will go up "significantly". The Nets rank first in "future draft positioning", third in "money".

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Because Courtney Lee is not as good as we expect, Devin Harris can’t stay in here for a long term, Brook Lopez is okay, but he has to rebound more, his rebounds number falls from 8 to 7 this season.

by jarkid on Nov 10, 2009 4:56 AM EST reply actions  

type, I mean: Devin Harris can’t stay in healthy.

by jarkid on Nov 10, 2009 4:56 AM EST reply actions  

Hollinger suddenly became a Nostradamus.

by Carlos on Nov 10, 2009 5:04 AM EST reply actions  

Sigh, right now only Lopez!!! we hit an iceberg or something, because we are drowning.

we are gonna sink at the bottom of the atlantic by season’s end at 15-67.

right now 0-8 (counting that we lost already this upcoming game)

by mr. omG on Nov 10, 2009 7:18 AM EST reply actions  

Is it 1998? Why does mr. omG keep making Titanic references?

Any way to read this article without being an insider?

by jb on Nov 10, 2009 7:55 AM EST reply actions  

@jb

i still think Titanic is a new movie in my memory… although it’s 11 years ago, it’s still like a new movie…

by jarkid on Nov 10, 2009 8:56 AM EST reply actions  

Brooklyn might fall thru but Proky will still buy the Nets, at a lower price of course. I have no inside info of course, but all you gotta do is connect the dots.

by Mike on Nov 10, 2009 9:11 AM EST reply actions  

Your dots are very far apart.

We could all just sit here any make assumptions. I’m not hating on you, just over reading everyone’s dissections of how the future will be when we are 8 games into the season and still in New Jersey.

by Trenton on Nov 10, 2009 10:24 AM EST reply actions  

@ Trenton;
  The dots may be far apart but they still connect. Proky sounds like a serious man and I know David Stern is. Serious men don’t waste their time on “pie in the sky” projects. Ratner last week hinted that if Brooklyn fell thru something else could/would be worked out. From all accounts Proky wants to own a NBA team. He has owned other sports teams. Proky buying the Nets just to own real estate in downtown Brooklyn does not sound quite convincing to me. Sure it would be nice but owning the MBA franchise is the important thing. The whole matter of ownership should be resolved in the next 2 months. My money is on Proky.

by Mike on Nov 10, 2009 10:38 AM EST reply actions  

I love the stretch of the connect-the-dots symbolism.

Hey I think the dots may still connect even though they’re very far apart, but just barely.

by Dirt on Nov 10, 2009 11:53 AM EST reply actions  

@ jb

i love the titanic, both the History and the movie.

it seems like we are at the bottom of the atlantic division. The ship is at the bottom of the North atlantic ocean.

a lovely coincidense

and btw the ship sank in 1912 not 1998 (the movie was in 1997 also)

by mr. omG on Nov 10, 2009 12:39 PM EST reply actions  

I have one real question that I want some true fan with good insight to answer: Is Prokhorov really going to buy the team? What I really mean is the signing going to go through? Like what are the odds of it falling through? I hear people saying its all but guaranteed, but then I also hear it depends on Brooklyn, etc. so I don’t know what to believe. All I do know is that I hope the deal goes through ASAP.

by Jason on Nov 10, 2009 3:16 PM EST reply actions  

Yes Prokhorov is going to buy the Nets for 200 millions dollars. I don’t see what he can do to the Nets to improve this team, if everyone is hurt. He can hire Fedor and he could beat the other team physically.

We need first to Fired Frank, then send Thorn to retirement and get rid of Kiki also. Hire Jerry West and let him run the whole team.

by Seeker on Nov 10, 2009 5:01 PM EST reply actions  

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