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<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">The Nets' hopes of being able to replace one All-Star power forward with another one appear to have been dashed over the weekend by the demise of the Shareef Abdur-Rahim deal, sending their search for a starting four into a new and...

One team down, two to go! <div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">Utah Jazz GM Kevin O'Connor told ESPN Insider Chad Ford that the Jazz and Kenyon Martin mutally agreed to cancel his free agent visit to Utah on Thursday. "We just decided in was in both of our interest to...

<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">A year after a free-agency saga that paralyzed the Nets' franchise and gave team CEO Rod Thorn about 10 days' worth of nonstop indigestion, the Nets are going through free agency for another one of their All-Stars. This time, it's...

<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">Having made their earliest playoff exit of the Jason Kidd Era, Nets CEO Rod Thorn is unlikely to let a summer slip by without doing some serious redecoration of the Nets roster. Thorn is a gambler by nature, a man who has made...

<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">Mark Lewis wandered into a WNBA exhibition game at The Palace on Monday night. Just minutes after walking out of the concourse and into the stands, he realized his mistake. "Hey!" the fans started yelling. "It's Jason Kidd!"...

<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">With Richard Jefferson providing the offense, the New Jersey Nets had plenty of defense to get back into their Eastern Conference semifinal series. Jefferson poured in a playoff career-high 30 points on 11-of-19 shooting, leading...

<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">Even though this was Lawrence Frank's first job in the sports industry, his buddies still should have known better. He was 12, and had decided to start a three-on-three tackle football league at Clarence Park in Teaneck. The sign-up...

<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">Zach Randolph of the Portland Trail Blazers was named the winner of the 2003-04 NBA Most Improved Player Award, the NBA announced today. The annual award is presented to a player who has made a dramatic improvement from the previous...

<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">Two steps onto the court might cost Nets forward Richard Jefferson one game in the first-round series against the Knicks. An NBA spokesman said the league would review a second-quarter incident when television replays showed...

<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">NEW YORK -- New Jersey Nets interim coach Lawrence Frank will be back with the team next season, the New York Daily News reported Wednesday. Frank will have the interim tag lifted after the season, no matter how the Nets do in the...

The Good News: <div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">WASHINGTON, March 31 (Ticker) -- The New Jersey Nets finally played their first overtime game. Lucious Harris and Jason Collins made it worthwhile. Harris sank a pair of clinching free throws after a key controlling...

<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">We're talking Phil Jackson and logic, so already things are off to a bad start. But think about it. Jackson may need a new home. The New Jersey Nets may want a new coach. Do the math. Even if new has nothing to do with it. Jackson...

<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">DENVER, March 2 (Ticker) -- Maybe teams should start resting their best player against the Denver Nuggets. The Nuggets lost for the second time in three games to a team missing its best player as the New Jersey Nets overcame the...

<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">Long before Jason Kidd's mouth leaked the news that his body wasn't quite right, his numbers were doing it for him. Each game had gotten a little worse than the last. He was shooting .321 since the All-Star break. He had five...

<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">PHOENIX - Antonio McDyess is not ruling out returning to the New York area this summer to reunite with his favorite point guard; the one on the other side of the Hudson River. McDyess, the former Knick who will become a free agent on...

<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">So there was a Knicks-Magic game. The fans came for Patrick. Patrick Ewing's No. 33 was sent up loudly to the Madison Square Garden ceiling Friday night. Even during introduction of the starting lineups, the sellout crowd was voicing...

Box Scores Key stats: Hudson with 29 points with 4 3pt FGs Wally with 14 points. Nets with 38.6% shooting (Kidd with 5-20, Jefferson with 5-19) Nets making only 1-5 FT

<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">It was one of those plays that had everyone in the locker room buzzing after the game. Kenyon Martin was playing help defense on Jamal Mashburn on the left wing. He switched over to the top of the key to play some more help defense...

<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">John Dodds knew he was in trouble the moment Eddie Griffin started flexing. "He was sticking out his chest, trying to scare us," Dodds said. "It was like he thought he was all-powerful, like he was King Ding-a-ling or something."...

<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">If it sounds like a bunch of bunk -- the coaching equivalent of the fish story to end all fish stories -- they apologize. But it just so happens one day, in perhaps 1992, perhaps 1993, a young Lawrence Frank, staff assistant to...