NBA All-Star Ballot Expands To Include All Players; Start Of Voting Pushed Back
Voting for the Feb. 15 game in New York will open Dec. 11. It traditionally began this week, when teams aren't even 10 games into their seasons.
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Voting for the Feb. 15 game in New York will open Dec. 11. It traditionally began this week, when teams aren't even 10 games into their seasons.
Gerald Green came off the bench to score 28 points as the Phoenix Suns erased a 19-point deficit to beat the Brooklyn Nets 112-104 on Wednesday night.
Jane Hill, who owns a telecom company in Santa Fe, told the New York Times that she's "had fun with the mystery of it all." But that's not the sole motivation.
Joe Johnson, a 2014 All-Star and the Nets' go-to scorer down the stretch of tight games, is not one who usually shares his beefs with the media. But something sure is bugging him these days.
It's early, but it appears Deron Williams is a different player than a season ago. The veteran point guard has done basically everything right of late and on Monday was rewarded for it.
It's time once again to look at who's hot and who's not on the New York/New Jersey sports landscape.
Mason Plumlee added 12 points and 10 rebounds while Deron Williams and Kevin Garnett each had seven assists for Brooklyn (4-2).
Deron Williams scored a season-high 29 points and the Brooklyn Nets beat the New York Knicks 110-99 on Friday night in the first meeting this season between the city rivals.
The New York Knicks are still laboring with their new triangle offense and that could make it challenging for them to extend a three-game win streak in Brooklyn.
Mr. Prokhorov, let's forget about this Knicks nonsense for a while and get down to what this organization really needs: a competent general manager.
Nikola Pekovic converted a tiebreaking three-point play with 48 seconds left, and the Minnesota Timberwolves scored the final nine points of the game to beat the Brooklyn Nets 98-91 on Wednesday night.
In a new weekly segment, we'll take a look at who's hot and who's not on the NY/NJ sports landscape. With that, here we go.
"I'm no longer in Brooklyn," the future Hall of Famer said. "Unfortunately they keep talking about it. I don't. I'll let them keep talking."
Whenever Nets owner Mikhail Prokhorov is in town to watch his favorite American toy play basketball, the game often turns out to be of secondary importance. That was the case Monday night.
Sprinkling humor among his talk about basketball business, the Russian billionaire joked about the departure of Jason Kidd: "Don't let the door hit you where the good Lord has split you."
