A video detailing the “Top 10 Circus Shots” has been circulating the web the past few days. A Vince Carter “and 1” when he steps on Delonte West of the Cavs makes the cut, but noticeably absent is the Devin Harris halfcourt heave, aka, “The Shot.”
Peachtree Hoops, an Atlanta Hawks blog, says they understand why the Nets are doing their reversible jersey marketing ploy.
Brett Roberts at Bleacher Report gives his team prospectus of the Nets.Roberts sees potential, but not many wins.
Dime questions who would win it all the NBA coaches entered a 3-on-3 tournament. Personally, I don’t like the odds of the Lawrence Frank/Doug Overton/Roy Rogers Nets squad.
NYC Comptroller and mayoral candidate Bill Thompson tells the Brooklyn Paper that he’s a “late supporter” of the Atlantic Yards development.
Steve Luhm and Ross Siler over at the Salt Lake Tribune recently launched a Carlos Boozer “Billboard Challenge,” after noticing that the Utah Jazz power forward, who was mentioned in trade rumors earlier this summer including some speculation that he could come to the Nets, wasn’t featured in any of the team’s roadside advertisements promoting season ticket plans.Obviously, Luhm and Siler are hinting that Boozer could still be on the move before the season starts. The Nets haven’t been linked to Boozer since late July, with the Mavs, Bulls, Heat and Pistons still a more likely destination. But I wouldn’t be shocked to see his name linked to the Nets a few more times before the start of the season.
And for those who were buying into the Mikki Moore to the Nets rumors earlier this summer, Moore signed with Golden State yesterday.
This offseason, the basketball analysts over at ESPN has been predicting a number of things from ROY to where some of next year’s top free agents will land (The Nets got at least 1 vote for each FA). Well, today they went ahead and predicted the Eastern Conference Standings for this upcoming season, and they end up placing the Nets in last place with 29 wins.
Allow them to explain the process:
Our 53 panelists from across ESPN have predicted the number of wins and losses for each team, and today we’re providing the average tally for each team in the Eastern Conference.
One important note: The order of finish is more important in these predictions than the exact number of wins and losses. When 53 individuals vote, they will almost never all agree that one team will win as many as, let’s say, 65 games or that another team will win only 20 games, even though we know these things happen frequently. Why? Because these are extreme results that happen when pretty much everything goes right or everything goes wrong for a team. The panel collectively takes a more measured view, so the forecasts for wins and losses tend to float toward the middle.
I know that sounds harsh, but the thing is, I think they are right in terms of the win number (I got them going for 30-35 wins – stayed tuned for the final part of my breakdown tomorrow). Where these guys lose me is the standings. I don’t think the Knicks (and even the Pistons if they struggle) will surpass 30 wins, and because of that I have the Nets above them. Mark will talk about this more in depth on Friday, but for now, I just wanted to know what you guys thought.
As we mentioned last week on NAS, filmmaker Michael Galinsky is working on a documentary about the Atlantic Yards development. For your viewing pleasure today is the trailer for that film. More information about the project can be found here.
At a press conference in May 2006, architect Frank Gehry, who had gained fame for his designs around the world including the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain and the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, unveiled his latest architectural vision for the Atlantic Yards development.
The point of interest for Nets fans was still the new arena, now known as the prospective Barclays Center after the London bank that signed on for the naming rights for the facility about a year later. But during the press conference, Gehry also talked about other aspects of the development, the complex’s tallest building, “Miss Brooklyn,” named after Gehry saw a bride walking the streets of Brooklyn in a flowing bridal veil. While coming up with his plan, Gehry said he studied Brooklyn, trying to understand “what is Brooklyn.” To those who opposed the project, it’s scale and scope and use of eminent domain to acquire the property needed, Gehry spoke of Henry Ford: “There is progress everywhere.”
Whether you supported the project or not, what could not be challenged was the cache and glamour an architect like Gehry brought to it. All of this talk of bridal veils and progress added intrigue the project. It’s a kind of poetry and attitude that seems distinctively New York in flavor.
Three years later, the current Nets Brooklyn situation brings me to a theme that was recently explored by Kevin Arnovitz in a must-read piece on TrueHoop. When the vision for the current iteration of Madison Square Garden came forward in the 1960s, it came at the expense of Pennsylvania Station, a Beaux-Art architectural masterpiece in New York City. The tearing down of the train terminal was considered outrageous, and born from it were new preservation laws that would prevent similar deconstruction in the future.
