The ESPN Trade Machine will for the first time permit fans to work up deal involving Kris Humphries and Brook Lopez. It's the first big deadline of trade season which lasts until February 21. We look at a lot of deadlines and commitments.

Mirza Teletovic finally got his chance under P.J. Carlesimo, finally got a chance to show not just his shooting ability but his athleticism and his BBIQ. In the last three games, all wins, he's been in the rotation and has rewarded his coach.

How have the signings of Brook Lopez and Kris Humphries worked out for the Brooklyn Nets? Have they done enough to earn their pay, respectively?

How fair is it for us to compare MarShon Brooks to a young Kobe Bryant? There are certainly some similarities in style, but beyond that, do the two players even compare?

As part of the Joe Johnson trade, the Nets quietly agreed to permit the Hawks to swap first picks with Brooklyn in both 2014 and 2015, according to a league source. The Nets can still trade the picks in any future deal.

Deron Williams played 2,505 minutes last season between Turkey and the NBA. That doesn't count the 13 games in played in the Olympics. In the past two days, he and his GM have admitted he may have overdone it and is now playing the price.

Next week, teams will start to think seriously about the shape of their rosters. On Monday, teams can sign players to 10-day deals. Thursday, teams with players on non-guaranteed or partially guaranteed deals have to decide who to cut or keep.

The Nets would like to be the Spurs East, a stable, winning organization. It doesn't (yet) have the all-time great coach. It doesn't have one of the game's all-time great players. But the Spurs are not just about those two. There's this plan...

The Nets, like all NBA teams, have a lot of decisions to make starting next week. With 26 games out of the way, one third of the way through the season, teams have better ideas about their needs and realistic goals. Will they act on them?