The New Jersey Nets will have lots of transitions to go through this summer: a new owner, some new players, and…
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The New Jersey Nets will have lots of transitions to go through this summer: a new owner, some new players, and… Miami Heat guard Dwyane Wade is going to be one of the top free agents on the market this summer and he… Each weekday morning, BDL serves up a handful of NBA-related stories to digest with your hash browns. Duke Blue Devils head coach Mike Krzyzewski picked up his fourth national championship last night and it appears… The New York Knicks have waived guard Cuttino Mobley more than a year after he retired because of a heart condition. The move announced by New York on Monday left 14 players on its roster. Mobley was acquired from the Los Angeles Clippers in a four-player trade in November 2008. His heart condition was discovered during a physical and he retired three weeks later. Marcus Camby has been off the New York Knicks since he was traded to the Denver Nuggets for Antonio McDyess back… Al Harrington once spoke with great confidence that he believed his future would be to not only remain with the Knicks, he seriously believed he could be one of those key free agents everyone’s talking about in 2010. But the pending unrestricted free agent, who is looking extremely old at 30, seems so demoralized by the losing he has endured in two seasons in New York that reality may be setting in. “I want to win, man,” he said. “I can’t do this (any) more.” The Knicks might agree. Harrington has put up solid scoring numbers this season (17.8 points per game) but he has often been a defensive liability and a ball-stopper on offense. He has lost a great deal of his athleticism and has turned into more of a lumbering power forward. To his credit, he has played through… The epic failure that was the Stephon Marbury trade, which remains Isiah Thomas’ signature deal, still resonates with the franchise six years later. For as the Knicks clinched a sixth consecutive losing season—a trend that began with Marbury’s first full season in New York—the harshest reality is that the one bright spot for missing the postseason is a chance to be in the draft lottery. The only problem is the Knicks don’t own their first-round pick. It will instead go to the Jazz, a team currently battling for the second seed in the West. So how did the Jazz wind up with a pick that the Knicks originally sent to the Suns as part of the Marbury blockbuster? About a month after the Jan. |
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