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The Net Who Changed Basketball
A few years ago, a hoops writer joked that Julius Erving in the NBA is the most overrated player of all time and Julius Erving in the ABA the most underrated. Fran Blinebury of NBA.com doesn't go that far, but writes this weekend that Dr. J's time as a Net changed basketball. "Doc was the first...
Armen Gilliam - 1964 -- 2011
Armen Gilliam, who averaged 15 points and 8 rebounds for the Nets over three seasons in the mid-1990's, died Wednesday at the age of 47 in his native Pittsburgh while playing a pick-up game at a local gym. Gilliam collapsed of a heart attack while playing basketball at LA Fitness in Collier...
Golden State of Mind Reaches 30 MILLION Page Views! - GSoM can't stop and won't stop.
My dear golden friends. I have some great news to share with you all. This mighty community has crossed the 30 million page views mark. 30 MILLION! GSoM retro logo circa 2005-2008 There's only two things that are guaranteed in life: 1) Tolls for the Antioch Bridge, Benicia-Martinez Bridge,...
Nets Add Scouts, Fulfilling a Prokhorov Promise
At last May's press conference in New York, Mikhail Prokhorov promised to address the issue of cutbacks in the Nets coaching, scouting and other basketball operations under Bruce Ratner. With six assistant coaches--including three who have sat in the big chair on the bench, he fulfilled one...
If Kobe Bryant is the Greatest Los Angeles Laker, then is Adonal Foyle the Greatest Golden State Warrior?
(Adonal Foyle, Greatest Warrior of the Contemporary Era?) As the 2010 Boston Celtics versus Los Angeles Lakers finals match-up gives us more reason to wax nostalgic about the historical NBA empires that are the Celtics and Lakers, it also raises interesting questions about whether anyone on the...
TODAY'S 2010 NBA Draft Lottery = 2010 NBA Playoffs for Golden State Warriors
Originally posted 4:15 AM PDT Today on ESPN at 5pm PST folks, it's the annual Golden State Warriors playoffs. Did you enter your predictions in our NBA.com contest? If not, hurry up before it starts! Here's the odds in one fun-tastic visualization courtesy of longtime GSoMer Sleepy Freud (also see...
Game 81 - Nets vs. Bobcats - Monday, April 12, 7:30
The Nets bid farewell--fond or not--to the building they've called home since 1981 on Monday night. There are no closing ceremonies planned, other than a video presentation and a thank you to fans and the NJSEA. At some point in the near future, the banners will come down and be trucked to Newark...
A Trip Down Memory Lane Brings Hope
The Nets had a series of bad seasons in an antiquated gym. No one came to games. Their owner was going broke. Then, a new owner arrived. He first moved the team to a temporary home, then a new arena. Sound familiar? It should. That's the history of the...
Loughery Knows Nets Highs and Lows
The year before the New York Nets hired him as their coach in 1974, Kevin Loughery had played on--and coached--the worst team in NBA history...so far. The 1972-73 Sixers were so bad Loughery retired as a player when the season ended. Then, with the Nets, he...
So Many Empty Seats, So Little to Watch
The Nets' future, everyone tells us, is filled with possibilities: new arena(s), new owner, new coach, new players, including if everything falls into place, the first pick in the draft. But for the fans, the present is as ugly as anything any team anywhere in...
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