The Oklahoma City Thunder made an improbable comeback in Saturday night’s game to complete a sweep of the Dallas Mavericks. Down 86-73 with 9:44 left in the fourth quarter, the Thunder rattled off two runs to reclaim control: a 15-2 run to tie the game at 88 with 6:05 remaining, then an 8-0 run to [...]

Season Stats: 5 G, 5 GS, 27.2 MPG, 19.2 PPG, 3.6 RPG, 1.2 APG, 0.2 SPG, 0.8 BPG, .494 eFG%, .527 TS%, 21.9 PER, 11.3% PIE Preseason Outlook After a nasty bout with mononucleosis in 2010-11, Brook Lopez was hit much harder by an injury bug in preseason — suffering a stress fracture of the [...]

The New Jersey Nets announced this weekend that Brook Lopez, just five games played on the season as a result of various injuries, wouldn’t play another game this season. They were shutting him down, ensuring that he’d rest his ankle and foot injuries enough to return next season with 100% health. With the Nets far [...]

Brook Lopez will sit two more weeks through Friday, April 6th, the New Jersey Nets announced today. According to Colin Stephenson, the Nets discovered an additional line in Lopez’s broken right foot in a CT scan. Andy Vasquez adds that Billy King reports no pain in Lopez’s foot. Lopez injured the ankle in his fifth [...]

It looks like not only will Brook Lopez’s and Damion James’ feet be sharing similar fates, but now also their bank accounts. The Nets made it official today that they will not be renewing the rookie contract of Damion James, nor will they be offering an extension to Brook Lopez. Suffering season-ending foot injuries is [...]

Here’s the story from earlier today as reported by Yahoo’s Adrian Wojnarowski that the Golden State Warriors are emerging as suitors for Dwight Howard. The Warriors would be willing to move either Stephen Curry or Monta Ellis in a package for Howard, as well as absorb Hedo Turkoglu’s contract. The Warriors would also be willing [...]

The 2011-12 New Jersey Nets season kicks off in a little over five hours. Here’s what we do know. The points The Nets boast, at worst, the third-best point guard in the league in Deron Williams, and two quality backups behind him. No one will argue that Jordan Farmar and Sundiata Gaines are starters, but [...]

Brook Lopez suffered a stress fracture to the fifth metatarsal of his right foot yesterday. Now, if you’re like me, the moment you heard that, all you saw was the words “fracture” and “foot,” filled in the rest as medical jargon, and began panicking. Well, after a bit of research, here’s what that jargon means, [...]

Apologies for what was I’m sure a choppy episode of Nets Are Scorching TV, we were experiencing some technical issues that were beyond our control. Nonetheless, Devin and I were still able to discuss our feelings on the Brook Lopez injury and how it changes things in relation to Dwight Howard, the acquisition of Mehmet [...]

Today myself, Devin and Danny Savitzky were joined by Mike Mazzeo of ESPN New York  and Zach Harper of Daily Dime Live fame as we all weighed in on five different questions heading into the Nets season as a part of ESPN.com’s 5-on-5 series. We all collectively did our best to not mention Dwight Howard’s [...]