On ESPN Radio and on the ESPN Dallas website, Deron and Amy Williams travel has gotten noticed. For weeks, and particularly after the Thunder's trashing of the Mavericks, Deron Williams has been held out as the hope of the franchise. It's been treated as a given in local sports pages that Mark Cuban would out-wrestle (if not out kickbox) Mikhail Prokhorov.
Tyson Chandler is one of the Nets' top free agent targets, and it may be that he's available because the Dallas Mavericks would prefer to preserve cap space for Deron Williams next summer.
in an interview published Friday (but done earlier this month), Avery Johnson tells a Russian sports writer that his motivations to win a championship include proving Mikhail Prokhorov was right to buy the Nets and "to win the championship with a team that was the worst when I took over...to make the worst team best."
Mark Cuban says Mikhail Prokhorov has to be ready to do the big deal...and show up at more games. "If Prokhorov does what I did to try to make deals and get something before the trade deadline then all that changes."
