About.com's Brendan McGovern is the latest basketball writer to pick the Nets to win the Atlantic, but McGovern goes even further. He thinks the Nets will have the second best record in the conference at 51-31, losing in the second round to the Pistons. In fact, McGovern really gets into the weeds in his prognosticating: he predicts Jason Kidd will be runner-up in the MVP voting and Lawrence Frank will be coach of the year.
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