As Nets Wallow in Jersey Limbo, Only Prokhorov Looks Certain
by Net Income on Jan 13, 2012 3:41 PM EST
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It's not been a good New Year for the Nets, not with a six-game losing streak, lingering injuries to a third of the roster and Deron Williams' frustration mounting with each loss, each bad game.
One thing Harvey Araton did get in his look at the Nets in transition (not fast break, transition) is word from Moscow that Mikhail Prokhorov is still engaged.
"My interest in owning the Nets has not diminished at all," said the principal owner, billionaire and Russian presidential candidate in an email exchange with Araton. "We have a superb management team in place and I see my role as lending vision and strategy ideas, but not intruding on their good judgment".
Otherwise, Araton runs through the best-case and worst-case scenarios re Williams and Dwight Howard, closing with Billy King's continuing optimism that by the time the Nets get to Brooklyn, they will be far more representative.
- Brooklyn Awaits, but Nets’ Destination as a Team Is Still Unclear - Harvey Araton - New York Times
- Prokhorov Has Enough Signatures to Contest Vote Amid Criticism - Bloomberg Business Week
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Another article worthy of some attention
Stein breaks down every Dwight iteration
http://espn.go.com/nba/dailydime/_/page/dime-120113-15/where-dwight-howard-land
no news
dwight to LA deron to dallas in FA; or dwight and deron here; or both to dallas
only TWO variables:
1) is LA’s offer both better than ours AND a place dwight accepts
2) does dallas carve up enough capspace to pull off both at once
that is IT
Proko...
Rocking the protoypes for the Brooklyn Nets jerseys? hmm…. :)
by Whoop Dee Damn Doo on Jan 13, 2012 4:17 PM EST reply actions
like what?
"It's as sweet as it ever was, I'll tell you. Now, hopefully, we started something and we can win some more championships, but we're going to enjoy this one right now. Have a little champagne." --Julius Erving, May 12, 1976, ABA champion Nets locker room.
Question:
Why is everyoen so certain, at least most reporters, that if Dwight gets traded to the Lakers, the Nets will have to look to trade Dwill? I mean, if D12 wants to play with Dwill, doesn’t he still have the option to walk in the summer?
Maybe its wishful thinking on my part, but I truly feel even if he gets traded to LA, he will
leave and play in BK with Dwill. I don’t think the Nets should be hasty and just trade Dwill, unless D12 says he’s definitely staying in LA, which I don’t think he will. He’s not Shaq and doesn’t want to be Shaq (free throws aside).
If I can just hide, the sinner inside, and keep him denied.
How sweet life would be, if I could be free, from the sinner in me.
This is all I needed to hear
Despite the losing, despite the trade falling through, despite everything that’s happened with this team, our multibillionaire owner is still 100% confident. This guy knows whats up. He didn’t earn all his money from taking wild guesses and hoping things turn out for the best. He knows what’s up, and as long as he’s happy, I’m happy.
Reality check
I still don’t buy into what King had to say about Brooklyn. Am I supposed to believe that the team will just magically get better overnight just because of this let alone that it will be easier to land star players? I think that everything he says about it is nothing more than wishfull thinking, but I guess he is afterall the ‘King’ of it. Even if it does land them Dwight Howard, it doesn’t necessarily make them better either. Both the Grizzlies and Hornets moved not that long ago, and tell me how that helped them? They still have pretty much the same records and same attendance as if they never left their original cities. Face it, when your team is still the same despite either getting new players or a new arena, nothing else changes be it better records or attendance with the results remaining the same. Again, please do not grill me for saying this for I am only being a realist on this, who sees things through reality rather through assumptions, not on optimist, who believes that theory equals practice. One other thing, unless the Nets have good money, they will most likely never get Howard, and that is what will really get him to come, not some new state of the art arena. If he was really into comming, he would do it move or no move just as long as he is given an offer he just couldn’t refuse. Overall, I am not saying that King is wrong completely, I am just saying that until it happens, I won’t believe his visionary ideas, though I have never seen a GM use a team’s arena as a driving force to getting such players when that was probably never done in the past.
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