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NBA opens office in Moscow

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Posted 10 Sep 2010 — by T.T.S.
Category NBA, New Jersey Nets
The National Basketball Association (NBA) has opened a new office in Moscow as part of its ongoing effort to bring the NBA closer to its growing fanbase in Russia and Eastern Europe.  The announcement was made today in Moscow by NBA Deputy Commissioner and COO Adam Silver.

“This is a great time for the NBA to expand its presence in Russia, especially given Mikhail Prokhorov’s commitment to further grow the sport in the country,” said Silver.  “We are excited to open our first office and we welcome Egor Borisov, whose wealth of experience and tremendous enthusiasm for the game will help spur the continued growth of basketball in the region.”

“We are very supportive of the NBA’s decision to open an office in Moscow,” said New Jersey Nets Principal Owner Mikhail Prokhorov. I’m sure Prokhorov is supportive, seeing how he is from Russia. “I look forward to working together with the NBA to create more opportunities for boys and girls and students throughout Russia to become active basketball participants.”

“Basketball and the NBA are extremely popular throughout Russia and Eastern Europe,” said Borisov. “I am excited to join the NBA and look forward to representing such an iconic brand as we grow the game both on and off the court.”

The NBA has offices in 16 markets worldwide, including seven in the Europe, Middle East, and Africa region: the headquarters in London, Istanbul, Johannesburg, Madrid, Milan, Moscow, and Paris.

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Tickets go on sale for NBA games in London

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Posted 01 Sep 2010 — by T.T.S.
Category NBA, New Jersey Nets, Toronto Raptors
Tickets have gone on sale for the first regular-season NBA games in Europe.

The New Jersey Nets and Toronto Raptors will play a pair of games at the O2 Arena in London on March 4-5. The NBA is planning a week of activities across Britain, including basketball clinics and 3-on-3 competitions.

Nets guard Devin Harris says “Everyone involved in bringing the games to London is excited about playing in one of the world’s great cities.” This announcement follows the success of four sold-out NBA Europe Live games in London from 2007 through 2010, with this year’s game between the Los Angeles Lakers and Minnesota Timberwolves selling out in record time. The NBA’s increasing presence in the UK has helped basketball participation double over the past four years with the sport reaching new levels of popularity.

The NBA became the first American professional sports league to stage regular-season games outside of North America when the Phoenix Suns and Utah Jazz opened the 1990-91 season with two games in Tokyo as part of the NBA Japan Games. The NBA has staged a total of 13 regular-season games in Japan and Mexico since 1990. The Los Angeles Lakers will face the Minnesota Timberwolves on Oct. 4 in this year’s installment of the league’s European tour.

Tickets can be purchased at www.theo2.co.uk.

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4-Way Trade: Rockets, Hornets, Pacers, Nets

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Posted 11 Aug 2010 — by T.T.S.
Category Houston Rockets, Indiana Pacers, NBA, New Jersey Nets, New Orleans Hornets

Trevor Ariza was sent to the New Orleans Hornets and Darren Collison to the Indiana Pacers in a four-team, five-player trade Wednesday. In the trade, the Houston Rockets sent Ariza to the Hornets, who in turn sent Collison and James Posey to the Pacers.The Pacers sent Troy Murphy to the New Jersey Nets. And the Nets sent Courtney Lee to the Rockets.

Breakdown:

Darren Collison leaving the Hornets shows Chris Paul the organization is serious about keeping him. The addition of Ariza betters their core, but will this make CP3 happy? Hornets  also have completed trade of forward Julian Wright to Raptors for guard Marco Bellineli.

I like the Rockets this year. If Yao is healthy of course, then I love the Rockets. By trading Ariza for Courtney Lee, it breaks up the front court log jam and gives them a solid young guard. Essentially they just re-shuffled their overall team depth, which is strong, and cut $5 mill off the payroll. What could Morey be up too? This deal saves the Rockets $28 million on the life of the contract and roughly $10 million (when you factor in luxury tax payments) this season. Rockets also got $6 million trade exception. This team knows how to run a business. SALARY DUMP!

The Pacers wake up from the dead with this move. They have that much needed point guard in Collison, and are set up nicely for the summer of 11′ and 12′. The Pacers did take on the last two years and $13 million of Posey’s contract, but the deal also sliced another $4 million off the team’s overall payroll.

The Nets getting Troy Murphy gives them a ton of height. Not sure how all the Nets pieces will fit together, but Avery Johnson will figure it out. Murphy is also on the last year of his contract, which could make him an important trading chip for the Nets at the 2011 trade deadline.

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Nets send name change request to NBA(ideas)

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Posted 10 Aug 2010 — by T.T.S.
Category NBA, New Jersey Nets

The New Jersry Nets have sent a request to the league to change the team’s name. Changing a team’s nickname, uniform or city name is a long process requiring that the owner gives the NBA notice 25 months in advance. The change, if it happens, would coincide with the team’s future move to Brooklyn.

The Truth Sports would like to officially begin the naming of the new Brooklyn team.

Brooklyn Reds, Brooklyn Zoo(my fav), Brooklyn Spies, Brooklyn Masons, The Rambling Elite, Brooklyn Bakers, Brooklyn Bentleys, Brooklyn Bricklayers, Brooklyn Paybach, Brooklyn Giants, Brooklyn Boul’e, Brooklyn Baby-Daddies, Brooklyns Finest, Brooklyn Nyets, Brooklyn Bets, Brooklyn Deckers, Brooklyn Dodgers, Brooklyn Bombers, Brooklyn Bodegas, Brooklyn Bailout, Brooklyn Prospects

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Rockets and Nets to meet in China

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Posted 04 Aug 2010 — by T.T.S.
Category Houston Rockets, NBA, New Jersey Nets

The Houston Rockets will play two pre-season games against the New Jersey Nets in Beijing and Guangzhou.

Yao Ming will of course headline the NBA’s fifth set of pre-season games in China as he and the Rockets will play New Jersey on October 13 in Beijing and on October 16 in Guangzhou.

What are the chances the NBA could make it where the Rockets stay in Beijing and the Nets stay in Guangzhou. Then each NBA team would travel to China to play them. It would help Yao recover from injury being home, and the Nets head coach Avery Johnson is much more popular in China.

In 2004, the NBA became the first American professional sports league to play games in China, with two games between the Rockets and the Sacramento Kings in Shanghai and Beijing.

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For the Love of LeBron James.

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Posted 28 Jun 2010 — by T.T.S.
Category Chicago Bulls, Cleveland Cavaliers, Detroit Pistons, Los Angeles Clippers, Miami Heat, NBA, New Jersey Nets, New York Knicks

With the start of the NBA’s free-agent period just three days away, details are starting to emerge about the meetings LeBron James will hold with potential suitors Thursday, when all parties can begin talking.

According to sources and media reports, the meetings with James will take place in northeast Ohio near — but not at — his suburban Akron home. The Bulls, New York Knicks, Miami Heat, New Jersey Nets and Los Angeles Clippers are expected to make pitches to James. There also was talk Sunday that the Dallas Mavericks, who are over the salary cap and only could acquire James through a sign-and-trade, want to make a presentation as well.

The Knicks have the most cap space of all the teams. They can get $34.15 million under the projected cap of $56.1 million. Next up are the Bulls, who can get roughly $29.1 million under the salary cap, followed by the Heat ($27.6 million) and the Nets ($27 million).

Just think if LeBron was to have cameras present, he could turn the entire process into a critically acclaimed reality show. Or LeBron could have each team compete in challenges (VH1 style) and prove which one really is up to the task of aiding James to a championship. Each team that proved its worth, would stepped down and receive a game ball, meaning they were still in the running towards~proving their love to LeBron. Teams that failed would be told by LeBron “You have fouled out, please return to the locker room and collect your things”. ” I have no love for you”.

This show would squash the entire Summer lineup on ABC by the way!

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New Jersey Nets: A Brown Bag Lunch!

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Posted 29 Mar 2010 — by T.T.S.
Category NBA, New Jersey Nets

The chief executive of the New Jersey Nets will have lunch with a fan who recently wore a brown bag over his head to protest the team’s woeful season. Nets CEO Brett Yormark and Chris Lisi of Middletown will sit down for lunch Tuesday at the Nets’ headquarters.

Lunch, of course, will be brown-bag style. Does this mean they will talk to each other while wearing brown bags on their head? I know thats probably too much to ask for, but would be awesome.

Yormark had a brief heated exchange with Lisi a week ago after seeing him with the brown bag on his head during a game. Yormark defended his actions the next day, saying he was standing up for his team, which is 9-64 and needs one win in its last nine games to avoid matching the NBA record for fewest wins.

I love the Nets organization for doing this. Here’s hoping  Chris Lisi prepares a PowerPoint presentation. He should at least have flash cards.

The meeting will be streamed live at www.njnets.com. Yormark and Lisi will be joined by Nets radio broadcasters Chris Carrino and Tim Capstraw.

Someone should let the new owner Mikhail Prokhorov know that in the United States, if you don’t know how much money you have the IRS will help you count it. I’m sure the background check on Prokhorov was as tall as David Stern. Maybe one day lucky fans will get to go swimming in Prokhorov’s money bin.

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Nets Losing Streak Ends Sunday!

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Posted 03 Dec 2009 — by T.T.S.
Category NBA, New Jersey Nets
(AP Photo/Bill Kostroun)

(AP Photo/Bill Kostroun)

The New Jersey Nets last win was April 13th. Seven months later and the Nets are still looking for that “W”(they did win one game in the preseason). On Wednesday night the Nets set the record for most loses to start the season. The loss came way of the Dallas Mavericks who outscored the Nets 49-22 in the second quarter.  Vandeweghe, the Nets’ general manager, replaced the fired Lawrence Frank and will coach the team the rest of the season — but not quite yet. Though his hiring was announced Tuesday, Vandeweghe won’t coach his first game until Friday, leaving Tom Barrise in charge one more time. Nice of Kiki to let Barrise name grace the record books and not his.

It was two years ago when the Nets traded Jason Kidd to the Mavericks for Devin Harris, ending the trio of Jason Kidd, Vince Carter, and Richard Jefferson that had led the Nets to back-to-back NBA Finals.

“It doesn’t pain me, it’s unfortunate,” said Dallas’ Jason Kidd, who led the Nets to two NBA Finals appearances earlier this decade before the rebuilding (or demolition, some would say) of the roster began with the trade that sent him to Dallas. “I can always say there was whispers of this coming, you could see it coming. It’s unfortunate, they’re going through some changes on that side and they have to stay with it and stay positive, and things will turn eventually.”

There is a bright side to this losing streak. After Fridays matchup against the Charlotte Bobcats, which will probably end in a lost, the Nets play in New York against the Knicks. What a fitting end to this horrible streak, with a defeat of the Knicks. Both teams have Saturday off, and Madison Square Garden is a place where history is made, espicially with the Knicks playing less defense then the Washington Generals.

The NBA’s all-time worst season record is 9-73 held by the 72-73 Philadelphia 76ers. The Nets wont break this record, and will finally get a win come Sunday. They are a young team, and with youth eventually comes maturity, and this horrible experience is aging the Nets faster then expected.

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