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These coaches on Nets' radar as season ends with a whimper
Nets owner Mikhail Prokhorov and his Russian brain trust were in town for the team’s finale Wednesday night, a 103-96 loss to the Raptors mercifully putting an end to the...
Can the woeful Nets muster any effort for their season finale?
As the shorthanded Nets stumble to the finish of this painfully long season, interim coach Tony Brown has begged with them to show some grit. In Monday’s 120-111 loss at...
Gregg Popovich disciple likely to lead Nets' coach search
With the Nets playing their penultimate game Monday — and mercifully putting their season out of its misery Wednesday — it underscores just how meaningless these games really are. The...
The ugly side to the Nets playing young, developing players
The upside of playing with a shell of a roster that almost looks like a D-League team is that the Nets can give some of their younger developing players minutes....
Bojan Bogdanovic cools off in Nets’ blowout loss to Wizards
WASHINGTON — With the Nets bereft of their top four scorers as they stumble down the home stretch of the season, Bojan Bogdanovic has been thrust into the unfamiliar position...
Nets pull plug on Brook Lopez's, Thaddeus Young's seasons
With the Nets’ season effectively over, they officially ended the seasons of Brook Lopez and Thaddeus Young before Sunday’s 106-87 loss to New Orleans. Brooklyn shut down its two big...
How Nets are trying to salvage something from lost season
At 34 games under .500 and long-since eliminated from playoff contention, the Nets are at a point this season where they’re planning for next season. Many would say it’s long...
What's left for Knicks and Nets? Playing for pride — and jobs
Give Nets interim coach Tony Brown some credit for being brutally honest. When asked by The Post whether Friday night’s game at the Garden had any extra meaning because it...
Shocked hoopsters on Lakers video mess: 'Something wrong there'
CLEVELAND — In a sordid mess from which nobody comes out looking clean — D’Angelo Russell videotaping teammate Nick Young confessing to cheating on his fiancée — the Lakers rookie...
At least Nets got to see a cool Aaron Gordon dunk
ORLANDO, Fla. — Without the carrot of the postseason, the Nets sure had the look Tuesday of a team ready for the offseason. Flat, uninspired and going through the motions...
How Nets have come together to make future look brighter
The Nets tip off a four-game road swing Monday in Miami with momentum, coming off consecutive come-from-behind wins over playoff contenders. Brooklyn rallied past LeBron James and his Cavaliers on...
Nets don't have a draft pick, but they have this ace up their sleeve
If ever there were proof of the value of hunger, the power of desperation, Thursday night was it. A day after Nets interim coach Tony Brown ripped his team’s energy...
Nets coach: Play as hard as Sean Kilpatrick or you're benched
Nets interim coach Tony Brown knows the struggles of being a professional basketball player. His 12-year career brought him to nine different NBA teams, two semi-pro teams and a couple of...
Rondae Hollis-Jefferson returns to Nets, dunks on everyone
After missing 50 games and nearly 15 weeks with a fractured ankle, Rondae Hollis-Jefferson made his return to the court Tuesday. And he was one of the precious few Nets...
Nets list rookie as 'probable' in bizarre hour-and-a-half 180
Rondae Hollis-Jefferson said after Monday’s practice he couldn’t rule out the possibility of being shut down for the rest of the season. Less than an hour and a half later,...
It's official but not a surprise: Woeful Nets will miss playoffs
CHICAGO — The Nets made a second-half comeback, but, like so often this season, it wasn't enough, and now they're officially eliminated from the playoffs. Doug McDermott scored 25 points...
Where Chris McCullough already is giving the Nets a lift
Nets fans have spent much of this season looking forward to next, waiting for their precious few young assets finally to get healthy and hoping to see them develop. Now...
Tony Brown just as confused as you about Nets' collapses
The Nets’ return home after a record nine-game road trip was a clunker, blowing a seven-point fourth-quarter lead Sunday to Milwaukee. One would think getting right back on the horse...
Sliding Nets hope home cooking does the trick against Bucks
The Nets ended their record road swing in a most embarrassing fashion, falling to an injury-riddled, cellar-dwelling 76ers team that had lost 13 straight. After coming out flat in that...
Why has Brook Lopez suddenly become an unstoppable force?
If there ever has been a criticism of Brook Lopez, it has been that the Nets center was too nice, too passive, too mild-mannered. But Lopez has gone into Hulk...