Joe Johnson Rumors & News

When Danny Ferry traded Joe Johnson to the Brooklyn Nets last summer, this is the moment we desired—this is the moment on which we were all fixated: the summer that will begin the process of shaping a new image and roster for a team that has been deemed irrelevant and fickle for so long. More than anything, though, this summer presents an opportunity to shed the proverbial skin that has covered the franchise since it’s relocation—a skin that symbolizes mediocrity, a skin that represents disorder. Over the past 10 months we’ve concocted our own visions—delusions of grandeur you migh...

Although questions remain regarding who the head coach of the Atlanta Hawks might be and preparations for the NBA Draft will ramp up next week it is never too early to take an early look at free agency. Having built significant cap room thanks to the offseason trades of Joe Johnson and Marvin Williams, Danny Ferry and the Atlanta Hawks figure to be major players in free agency if they desire. Depending on how they play it, the Hawks could have somewhere in the neighborhood of $30-40 million which will put them among the teams with the most to spend this offseason. Barring a trade, the ...

With 11 new players on the roster when the team started out last October, the Nets faced a formidable challenge: building chemistry, Joe Johnson tells Mike Mazzeo. "I thought we kind of came into training camp this year blindfolded," he said. We didn’t what was going to happen or how we were going to do everything. We just kind of learned as we went along the season. I think coming into next year we kind of have a vision on what we want to do." Johnson who was the NBA's top clutch shooter this season still had some of the worst numbers of his career. Late in the season, he was troub...

After announcing he wasn't going to renew P.J. Carlesimo's contract, Billy King spoke about the off-season beyond the coaching search offering his thoughts on Joe Johnson's health, retaining Andray Blatche, C.J. Watson and bringing Bojan Bogdanovic to the NBA. Mike Mazzeo provides the highlights, led by King's revelation that Johnson wouldn't have played in Games 1 and 2 vs. Miami because of increasing pain due to plantar fasciitis. "It was getting to the point where we were getting diminishing returns," King said. "He's not one to make excuses for himself, but we knew -- I found out...

The Brooklyn Nets just fired P.J. Carlesimo hours after they lost a game seven against the injured Chicago Bulls. I didn't watch that game with a fine tooth comb on each play, but if I was going to ascribe blame it wouldn't be on the coach. After all, it wasn't PJ who shot 2-14 in a close out game, that was Joe Johnson. But it's all too similar to what Jerry Sloan used to say: "You can't fire the players, so you fire the coaches." I think that's what's happening here. Anyway, PJ was the 8th coach in the last 15 years of Nets Basketball. I think stability is a good thing, some other tea...

Yonsan Johnson, he changed it to honor his idol, works in a factory in northern China, a man with a little money and no wife. At 24, though, he has a love: Joe Johnson. Please be seated. You are about to be entertained. Vice Magazine profiles Johnson, the fan, and the Chinese language fan club he founded for the Nets small forward. It is a testament to the unrequited love that is fandom in an obscure locale ... and the great reach of the NBA. Here's how it started, writes Evin Demirel, a writer and a high school classmate of Joe Johnson... For Yonsan Johnson, formerly Yonsan Uranus, ...

Joe Johnson told beat writers Wednesday that he is basically playing on one leg and if this was a regular season game, he'd sit. But it isn't and he isn't. He's playing. "I’m basically just a decoy, spot-up shooter. I can’t really do a whole lot," he said Reggie Evans has some sort of flu and wasn't at practice. But he will be ready to fly to Chicago and play Thursday. Andray Blatche's right calf is so sore. He hopes it will be 90 percent by Thursday. He swears he will play. "There’s no doubt in our mind. We are the better team." he said It's that time of year. Injuries mount up but...

In the 2004-05 NBA season, the Phoenix Suns were a sight to behold. They had just acquired Steve Nash, and by surrounding Nash with both players such as sharpshooter Joe Johnson and pick-and-roll stud Amare Stoudemire, they produced the #1 offense in the NBA. This team scored on average over 110 points per game with a league-best offensive efficiency of 114.5. Stoudemire was a primary cog in this machine, as he was able to average 26 points per game on 56% shooting from the floor. Stoudemire and his 26 PPG average was effectively lost for the 2005-06 season following microfacture surge...