Jalen Rose scored a career-high 43 points and the Indiana Pacers led by as many as 17 points in the first half Tuesday.
But one half does not an NBA game make, as the Pacers were painfully reminded when a second-half meltdown led to a 103-97 defeat to the New Jersey Nets in the season opener at Continental Airlines Arena.
"It's hard to celebrate success when you've lost the war," said Rose, whose 16-footer with 4:29 left enabled him to top his previous high of 42 points set against the Toronto Raptors on Dec. 20, 2000. "I'd much rather walk through the shower and have guys slapping me on the back in the locker room after a win."
Instead, teammates almost whispered their praise of Rose in a locker-room scene that resembled a wake.
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The New Jersey Nets are pondering whether to sign free agent forward A.C. Green, reports the New York Post.
The Nets are in the market for a veteran to replace injured forward Brian Scalabrine. Free agent A.C. Green, 38, the NBA's all-time longevity king with a consecutive-games-played streak of 1,192, is among the players the Nets are considering.
"He's someone we'll definitely look at and discuss," team president Rod Thorn said of Green, a former Lakers teammate of coach Byron Scott. "Obviously, he has some experience. Does he have anything left? That's what you need to know."
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In this week's NBA Notebook presented by Jeffrey Denberg of the Atlanta Journal-Consistution Washington Coach Doug Collins says High Schooler Kwame Brown is not receptive to coaching and is not in shape to play, to which Brown responded that Collins misreads his body language and that he is doing everything Collins has asked him to do. Could there be trouble in paradise already?
In other news Celtics coach Jim O'Brien is impressed with the play of point guard Kenny Anderson, yes, Kenny Anderson! "I think Kenny is in great shape. He really has committed himself defensively, and he has continued to do a wonderful job of getting the ball into the paint."
Down in Phoenix Stephon Marbury just cannot get over New Jersey, choosing to have yet another dig at the franchise stating "We have a better team, that's obvious to me".
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Nets Oct 2001 Archive
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| Oct 28, 2001
Strained Back.
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| Oct 27, 2001
Derrick Dial hasn't sent his laundry out, hasn't looked for an apartment.
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| Oct 27, 2001
Just what the New Jersey Nets needed.
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| Oct 27, 2001
The Nets' underlying goal this preseason was to make it to the regular season healthy.
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| Oct 26, 2001
Todd MacCulloch heard the praise from Jason Kidd, who called him "the best center I've ever player with.
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| Oct 24, 2001
For the first time this preseason, Michael Jordan finished a game on the court -- and he finished it with a flurry.
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| Oct 23, 2001
Kenyon Martin sat at home Saturday night, resting the tendinitis in his left knee and watching Michael Jordan do what Martin hopes to keep him from doing tonight.
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| Oct 23, 2001
Kenyon Martin likes to joke that he guarded "everybody" last season for the Nets.
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| Oct 23, 2001
Aaron Williams claimed his tendinitis-stricken right knee is better.
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| Oct 22, 2001
In the aftermath of their preseason victory Saturday night over the Washington Wizards, the Nets talked of how they believed they had acquitted themselves well in front of a national television audience.
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| Oct 22, 2001
Whether in the purple sport coat he wore Saturday night or the purple Lakers jersey he used to wear during his playing days, Byron Scott doesn't see much difference in Michael Jordan.
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| Oct 22, 2001
Michael Jordan wasn't the only one with something to prove to a national audience on Saturday.
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| Oct 22, 2001
Next.
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| Oct 21, 2001
Michael Jordan was simply awesome.
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| Oct 21, 2001
Yes, Michael Jordan can dunk.
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| Oct 21, 2001
For a half, there was little excitement and -- gasp -- there were empty seats.
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| Oct 21, 2001
The rookie Richard Jefferson had trouble pulling his socks up before practice Friday and was a minute late onto the court.
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| Oct 21, 2001
He still has the signature fadeaway.
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| Oct 21, 2001
Lucious Harris was leaving the Nets' locker room and spied a gang of media around rookie Richard Jefferson, the guy who bore the brunt of Michael Jordan's 41-point preseason tour-de-force last night.
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| Oct 20, 2001
It didn't take Jason Kidd long to discern the difference between tonight's exhibition game with the Washington Wizards and the dozens of others he has played in during his NBA career.
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| Oct 20, 2001
On the wall of rookie Richard Jefferson's apartment back in Phoenix hangs a poster of Michael Jordan.
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| Oct 20, 2001
There is a poster that still hangs in Richard Jefferson's bedroom back home in Phoenix.
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| Oct 20, 2001
The Nets are off to see Da Wizard.
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| Oct 19, 2001
The anti-Stephon Marbury sentiment simmering beneath the surface of the Nets since they traded him to Phoenix for Jason Kidd almost four months ago began bubbling Thursday.
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| Oct 19, 2001
Night and day.
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| Oct 19, 2001
In the grand scheme, Byron Scott has more important concerns than Stephon Marbury jabbing at his former coach, teammates and organization.
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| Oct 19, 2001
After practice today, Nets forward Keith Van Horn carefully sidestepped the oblique criticism his former teammate Stephon Marbury offered about him on Wednesday.
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| Oct 18, 2001
The learning curve has been steep, but Richard Jefferson is making the climb.
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| Oct 18, 2001
Especially against center-challenged East opponents, coach Byron Scott may occasionally use a frontcourt of Kenyon Martin, Keith Van Horn, and rookie Richard Jefferson to create the quick, athletic game he wants.
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| Oct 18, 2001
Ball in hand and coach Byron Scott in front of him, Nets rookie Richard Jefferson got a taste of NBA 101 before practice broke Wednesday.
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| Oct 18, 2001
He's checked Latrell Sprewell.
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| Oct 18, 2001
Stephon Marbury yesterday went right back at his former Net teammate Keith Van Horn, who has expressed giddiness over the Coney Island point guard's departure to Phoenix and Jason Kidd's arrival in Jersey.
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| Oct 18, 2001
Like most basketball-loving kids in the '80's and '90's, Richard Jefferson watched and studied Michael Jordan.
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| Oct 18, 2001
Ever since the Nets traded Stephon Marbury to Phoenix for Jason Kidd in July, the talk in New Jersey has been that Kidd, with his pass-first mentality and league-leading assist totals, will make Keith Van Horn a better player.
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| Oct 17, 2001
Byron Scott keeps telling people how the Nets will be a better team this season with Jason Kidd as the point guard, as opposed to last year, with Stephon Marbury.
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| Oct 17, 2001
Todd MacCulloch missed five of his six shots.
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| Oct 16, 2001
So, is Byron Scott ready to deal his starting forwards for Antonio McDyess?
"I didn't know about that one," Scott said.
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| Oct 16, 2001
During his sophomore season at Arizona, Richard Jefferson missed 13 games due to a broken right foot.
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| Oct 16, 2001
Byron Scott swears there are no flashbacks.
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| Oct 14, 2001
The MRI taken on Marcus Camby's left foot confirmed the obvious -- news bulletin: He's hurt -- and now Jeff Van Gundy has come face-to-face with a scenario that any coach would dread.
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| Oct 14, 2001
Todd MacCulloch learned how to juggle as a youngster in Winnipeg, Manitoba.
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| Oct 14, 2001
After completing postpractice free-throw shooting, but before heading out into the night, Todd MacCulloch and some of his Nets teammates decided to conduct one final drill last week.
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| Oct 14, 2001
Peter Vecsey reports that the Denver Nuggets contemplated dealing Antonio McDyess prior to his knee surgery.
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| Oct 14, 2001
A quarter century and a million basketball plagues ago, Roy Boe lunched at the Nassau County Country Club and tried, one last time, to convince Julius Erving he should end his holdout and rejoin the New York Nets.
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| Oct 14, 2001
For Brandon Armstrong, the daily ritual began early — both in his career and in his day.
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| Oct 14, 2001
"I was in shock when I got traded," Jones said.
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| Oct 13, 2001
The disparity was staggering and, if it continues into the regular season, it's something the Nets will not be able to survive.
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| Oct 13, 2001
Every night, the Nets would gladly take, but don't expect, the 17 points and 10 rebounds Todd MacCulloch produced in Thursday's loss to the Knicks.
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| Oct 13, 2001
Truth be told, the Nets love their starting five of Jason Kidd, Kerry Kittles, Todd MacCulloch, Kenyon Martin, and Keith Van Horn.
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| Oct 13, 2001
Kerry Kittles has played as if he has springs in his shoes.
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| Oct 13, 2001
The Nets' starting unit in the first two pre-season games has shot .
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| Oct 12, 2001
Put a basketball in Brandon Armstrong's hands as far back as junior high and he's known only one thing to do with it: shoot.
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| Oct 12, 2001
Whether they will win more than the 26 games they won last year remains a mystery.
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| Oct 11, 2001
Kenyon Martin was toast the moment his first free throw missed miserably.
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| Oct 11, 2001
Wearing a sheepish grin after barely brushing the front of the net with his first preseason free throw Tuesday, Kenyon Martin walked to the rim, jumped, and grabbed it - as if to prove that the distance between the foul line and the backboard is still 15 feet.
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| Oct 11, 2001
He can catch a bounce pass in the midst of a full sprint and turn it into a scintillating two-handed dunk.
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| Oct 11, 2001
On his first attempt, Kenyon Martin stepped to the foul line, stood a little off-center, peered at the basket 15 feet away and promptly launched a 14-footer.
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| Oct 10, 2001
It took Jason Kidd some 20 minutes to make the mile drive from the team hotel to Continental Airlines Arena.
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| Oct 10, 2001
Kerry Kittles took off from somewhere north of Teterboro Airport, reaching back at least a couple of years as he rose high above the rim.
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| Oct 10, 2001
The last time Jason Collins played against someone other than a teammate in a Nets practice uniform, he looked lost.
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| Oct 10, 2001
There was Jason Kidd's ally-oop pass to Kenyon Martin from halfcourt.
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| Oct 10, 2001
Compared to most of his teammates, Jason Kidd, at age 28, is Social Security material.
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| Oct 10, 2001
Keith Van Horn's first hook shot slid sweetly off his fingers for the Nets' opening score of their preseason.
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| Oct 9, 2001
Whiter whites! Brighter colors! Try the NEW and IMPROVED New Jersey Nets and make wash day a breeze.
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| Oct 9, 2001
All Kerry Kittles needed was a quick glance from Jason Kidd.
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| Oct 9, 2001
The old comfortable porch rocker.
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| Oct 9, 2001
Kerry Kittles burst behind the defense, catapulted into the air and slammed down a seamless alley-oop pass from Jason Kidd — announcing, in one stunning instant, the hope of a new Nets season.
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| Oct 8, 2001
Lucious Harris accomplished his objective.
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| Oct 8, 2001
Although not all Nets agree, Lucious Harris believes coach Byron Scott has taken it easier on his team this training camp than in his first a year ago.
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| Oct 8, 2001
Kerry Kittles or Lucious Harris? With the preseason schedule beckoning and several personnel decisions to make or already made, that is the biggest the Nets will likely make this training camp.
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| Oct 8, 2001
Sometime today, perhaps this morning, it will hit Byron Scott.
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| Oct 8, 2001
Byron Scott's life would be a little easier if Kerry Kittles repeatedly ran the wrong way or if Lucious Harris kept launching shots that hit teammates in the head.
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| Oct 7, 2001
His new Nets teammates had been singing his praises since training camp's first day.
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| Oct 7, 2001
The Keith Van Horn that Jayson Williams remembers as a rookie five Nets training camps ago arrived in the NBA with an edge.
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| Oct 7, 2001
Don't feel bad if you've forgotten about Kerry Kittles.
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| Oct 6, 2001
The old strategy to get tickets for a Nets-Wizards game worked like this:
Show up at the arena 10 minutes before tip-off.
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| Oct 6, 2001
The AP reports that Center Jim McIlvaine and the New Jersey Nets have agreed on a buyout of the final two years on his contract.
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| Oct 6, 2001
It's not a kinder, gentler Byron Scott this season.
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| Oct 6, 2001
Kenyon Martin can admit it now.
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| Oct 6, 2001
Last season, when Nets players lost 345 games to injury, some veterans suggested that the overwork ethic that coach Byron Scott learned playing for Pat Riley with the Lakers produced many of those injuries.
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| Oct 6, 2001
During the Boston summer league, two NBA scouts discussed Brandon Armstrong, one of the Nets' three first-round acquisitions in their draft-night trade.
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| Oct 6, 2001
For the rookie center Jason Collins, class is in session even before the Nets' morning practice.
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| Oct 6, 2001
(AP)--Center Jim McIlvaine and the New Jersey Nets have agreed on a buyout of the final two years on his contract.
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| Oct 5, 2001
One rookie is a 7-footer who likes to correct an assistant coach's grammar when he isn't discussing the finer points of the Nasdaq.
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| Oct 5, 2001
The center position for the Nets has been a revolving door since Jan.
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| Oct 4, 2001
Like Keith Van Horn, Nets coach Byron Scott believes Kenyon Martin can average a double-double this season: 18 points plus 10 rebounds.
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| Oct 4, 2001
From last preseason to this preseason, Kenyon Martin believes he's achieved a "360-degree turnaround.
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| Oct 4, 2001
After Kenyon Martin broke his leg toward the end of his senior year at Cincinnati, simple things like walking down a flight of stairs became a painful task.
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| Oct 4, 2001
Kenyon Martin doesn't want any geometric debate on this, OK? This year, he claims he has done an "360" from last year in terms of pain, conditioning, confidence and whatever else goes into a basketball player's makeup.
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| Oct 4, 2001
In his rookie training camp last year, Kenyon Martin was sweating, scowling and gasping.
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| Oct 3, 2001
Jason Kidd's alarm clock went off at 6 a.
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| Oct 3, 2001
When the Nets' season ended last April, Keith Van Horn knew he might not return to the only NBA team he had really ever known.
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| Oct 3, 2001
The Nets have reached an agreement with center Jim McIlvaine to buy out the remaining two years of his contract.
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| Oct 3, 2001
Former Net Jayson Williams has a new job.
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| Oct 3, 2001
In 1695, England's King William III commissioned Capt.
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| Oct 3, 2001
Jason Kidd fired a few passes low, some chest high.
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| Oct 3, 2001
On the playgrounds, there was a status in the selection for pickup games.
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| Oct 3, 2001
Jason Kidd said goodbye to his 5-day-old twin daughters, Miah and Jazelle, in Phoenix on Monday morning, and as he checked into his Rutherford hotel room that evening, the phone rang.
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| Oct 3, 2001
While St.
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| Oct 3, 2001
Wednesday, October 03, 2001 - Denver Nuggets officials confirmed they're having trade talks with the New Jersey Nets about Omar Cook.
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| Oct 2, 2001
Yes, Michael Jordan is back.
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| Oct 2, 2001
Tuesday morning, 10 o'clock sharp, Byron Scott will blow the whistle hanging from around his neck and the Nets will begin running.
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| Oct 2, 2001
When a team goes 26-56, then makes changes at arguably the two most important positions - point guard and center - and orchestrates a blockbuster draft-night deal, it has questions.
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| Oct 2, 2001
Keith Van Horn figured after last season that it would be him or Stephon Marbury.
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| Oct 2, 2001
Only four players from the Nets' roster of last season returned to the team's practice facility this afternoon for media day, highlighting the swift changes sweeping the organization since the summer.
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| Oct 2, 2001
When last season mercifully came to an end, Keith Van Horn left the Nets locker room certain that either he or Stephon Marbury would not be back for the upcoming season.
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| Oct 2, 2001
Omar Cook still hopes to play his rookie season near home.
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| Oct 2, 2001
With Sam, it worked.
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| Oct 2, 2001
The infamous career of Jim McIlvaine may be nearing its end.
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