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Jerome Miron-USA TODAY Sports No Kevin Durant. No LeBron James. Still, this one is likely to see a ton of points scored. If you’re a Nets fan looking for a reason to be angry, tune into ESPN on Wednesday night for the doubleheader. First, you have Kyrie Irving and the Mavericks hosting the Golden State Warriors in a very tense playoff-seeding matchup. Then, at 10:00 p.m. est you have Kevin Durant and the Suns headed to Los Angeles where they’ll look to keep the Lakers on the outside looking in for the final spot out West. No, Durant won’t be suited up but you...

Photo by Maddie Meyer/ One of the biggest questions facing the Nets as they go forward is how much, if at all, the franchise’s issues with Kevin Durant and Kyrie Irving — which ultimately led to both being traded last month — will effect their plans to add superstars in the future. In particular, did the Nets suspension of Irving for posting a link to an anti-semitic video, leave a mark on the franchise’s reputation among the league’s best players? The suspension, which lasted eight games and was divisive for a number of reasons. The Nets said in a statement...

Photo by Phelan M. Ebenhack/NBAE via Worries over. After losing four straight and going down by 23 to the Lakeland Magic Tuesday night, the Long Island Nets, led by David Duke Jr., came back and not only broke their losing streak but clinched the top seed in the East. Final score: Long Island 118, Lakeland Magic 112. Long Island seemed jinxed after winning 16 straight and having their rookie head coach, Ronnie Burrell, twice win Coach of the Month. With their lead over the second place Delaware Blue Coats shrinking, Tuesday’s game was close to a must-win for the...

Photo by Al Bello/ Donovan Mitchell’s star-power and a couple of brutal offensive stretches were just too much for Brooklyn to overcome Tuesday night’s game against the Cleveland Cavaliers actually started off on the right foot for the Brooklyn Nets. They took a 30-23 lead after the first 12 minutes of the contest, propelled by an active defense, featuring frequent trapping of ball-screens, a tactic they’ve hardly deployed this season, trapping ball-screens: BKN has been trapping CLE's ball-screens early. Here, Claxton gets a deflection, leading to a fast-break...

Ken Blaze-USA TODAY Sports The Brooklyn Nets look to snap their losing streak in a home matchup against the Cavs. The Brooklyn Nets are in a rough spot, having lost three games in a row and the upcoming calendar not looking all that kind to them. If there’s one thing that’s kind of going in their favor is that the Knicks and Heat aren’t putting on much of a run themselves and the Nets continue to sit in 6th place (out of the play-in round) and within reach of 5th place (2 games behind the Knicks). Cleveland has had a rough go at winning on the road this season...

Photo by Kirk Irwin/ Don’t expect this, however, to turn into a war of words (or fists) The NBA is the reality TV league, the league that’s embraced an identity of producing gossip and rumors year-round. There is no off-switch on the entertainment side of the league, producing content with tenfold the demand for an analysis of Mikal Bridges’ pick-and-roll passing. And who could blame the masses? Some drama is Earth-shattering for fans and haters alike, like Kevin Durant’s trade requests. Other drama is just high-quality water cooler talk, like Giannis and the...

Photo by Sarah Stier/ Hint: It rhymes with gassing Over their last ten games, the Brooklyn Nets are fourth-to-last in the NBA in offensive rating. That generously includes the Charlotte Hornets, whose offensive rating over the same time frame is below the league average...of the 1999-2000 season. Even by NBA standards at the turn of the century, the Hornets can’t score the ball. So, while every victory counts, I don’t know how much pride Brooklyn can take in being only the fourth-worst offense in the month of March. We knew this team would struggle to score when...

Alonzo Adams-USA TODAY Sports Brooklyn Nets starting point guard Spencer Dinwiddie joins the show to discuss how the transition back to Brooklyn has gone, the subtle ways he’s trying to help build cohesion on the court, the development of Mikal Bridges and whether he thinks Silicon Valley Bank should be allowed to fail.

Photo by Lauren Bacho/NBAE via When one side has the MVP, chances are the day will do their way. Nikola Jokic has kept the Denver Nuggets atop the West even amidst their recent woes. The big guy had another excellent outing as he and the Nuggets handed the Brooklyn Nets their third straight loss on Sunday afternoon. The Nets are still in sixth place over the Miami Heat, but that lead is pretty tenuous right about now. The opponent tonight is pretty well rested. The Cleveland Cavaliers have been off since last Friday after they beat the Washington Wizards by 23 points....

Photo by Nathaniel S. Butler/NBAE via The Brooklyn Nets are in an odd position, maybe even a unique one, in NBA history. They are likely to make the playoffs with a starting lineup that didn’t play together till after two franchise-changing trades in February ... but are working with a cushion supplied by their dearly departed superstars. Still seven games above .500 — half what it was before Kevin Durant went down, the Nets are now the sixth seed, a game out of the seventh seed and the play-in tournament. It all matters. Moreover, they don’t control any of...

Photo by David Liam Kyle/NBAE via This is getting embarrassing. The Cleveland Charge (16-14) defeated the Long Island Nets (22-7) for the second time in as many games this weekend, 108-100, in front of 3,850 at the Wolstein Center on Saturday night. It was Long Island’s fourth straight loss after winning 16 straight and with only three games left in the G League regular season, Long Island is struggling to clinch the top seed in the East. The Delaware Blue Coats are two and a half back with only two to play. Delaware has lost two straight. After being down 11 in...

Photo by Sarah Stier/ Make it three straight losses for the Brooklyn Nets. In a matinee game on Sunday afternoon, the Nets fell 108-102 to the Denver Nuggets, who were on a back-to-back after narrowly losing to the New York Knicks on Saturday. With the loss, Brooklyn crept further down the standings, sitting just 1.5 games ahead of the seventh-seeded Miami Heat. The Nets have also lost the first two games of their four-game homestand. “I think overall you see the start of the game. I thought on our road trip, we had great energy, great juice, and somehow we’ve come...

Vincent Carchietta-USA TODAY Sports The Brooklyn Nets welcome the first place Denver Nuggets to town. The Nets continue their very tough homestand on Sunday afternoon with a matchup against the Western-leading, first place Denver Nuggets. Brooklyn enters the game on a 2-game losing streak, hoping to bring some of that magic they had with them when they beat the Nuggets a week-plus ago. It’s not an impossible task, considering that the Nuggets are much more beatable on the road; but it would be quite the feat to topple the Nuggs twice within a few weeks time. In...

Photo by Mark Blinch/NBAE via Close, but not all the way there. The Brooklyn Nets fought back after falling behind by as much as 17 points, but it ultimately wasn’t enough as the Sacramento Kings lit the beam and beat Brooklyn on Thursday night at Barclays Center. The Nets have been off since then and will be getting some more home cooking for the next couple of days. The opponent today is atop the Western Conference, but plenty of questions remain. The Denver Nuggets currently hold a 3.5 game lead on both the Kings and Memphis Grizzlies, but they’ve been...

YES Network With a heavy slate of games since the end of the All-Star Break on February 23rd, the Brooklyn Nets took advantage of their first set of two days without a game in nearly a month on Saturday by holding the practice. New Brooklyn center Moses Brown made an appearance after freshly signing a 10-day contract on Friday. Brown was playing with the Westchester Knicks in the G League before signing with Brooklyn. He most recently was rostered by the Los Angeles Clippers on a two-way contract. “My agent was in contact with Sean Marks and an assistant coach. A...