For a year, the reporting was consistent: the Mavericks were cutting salary, declining to offer veterans new contract in hopes that they could persuade Deron Williams to sign with them. Now, says Mark Cuban, it's good they didn't get him.

In talking with NBA Philippines, Brook Lopez was asked to compare the Nets' off-season moves with those of other teams. Lopez instead talked about what he thinks the Nets did best...."create a real team."

Now it's up to Avery Johnson to make sense of them, mold players into a winner, a contender.

ESPN reports that the Nets are amoung three teams that might give Brian Scalabrine a training camp invitation.

in the latest punditry on the Nets off-season, Ben Golliver of CBS Sports gives the Nets an A-, noting that the grade is more about what they could have been this off-season

In an interview with Grantland's Charles Bethea, Hawks GM Bob Ferry talks about the Joe Johnson trade. He calls giving up Joe Johnson a "hard deal," but argues as well that "it was a win-win" for both him and Billy King

A team executive on Saturday noted that the Nets were "back to normal" after the official end of the Dwightmare, but with Brooklyn now only weeks away and eight new players on the roster, what is "normal?"

Here's what we got out of the big news of the week: Brook Lopez is healthier than Dwight Howard! Howard hasn't even begun running yet. We also discuss EXHAUSTIVELY how historically bad the Howard trade is.

Deron Williams told Frank Isola of the Daily News that he wasn't much surprised by Dwight Howard trade and seemed resigned to how it turned out after months of trying by the Nets front office.

So where does all this leave the Nets whose every waking moment from December to July seemed to be consumed with getting Dwight Howard?