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Nets – Bulls Series: Without Kirk Hinrich, There’s No Chance
Kirk Hinrich might not be as explosive as Nate Robinson, but he’s a much better defender when it comes to limiting Deron Williams, and has a notion or two on how to run an offense instead of simply improvising and hoping for the best. The Brooklyn Nets have now won in Chicago, forcing the Bulls to travel back to New York and play in a game 7, hoping that Hinrich will be healthy by that time.
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Brooklyn Nets – Brook Lopez Keeps the Season Alive
Unlike the rest of his teammates, Brook Lopez has been a symbol of offensive consistency for the Brooklyn Nets, looking better and more dangerous with each game that passes in the first round series. His best game so far kept his team in the playoffs, although they’ll need more than just him to make it into the semifinals.
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Brooklyn Nets – Deron Williams & Brook Lopez Party in the Paint
One of the interesting things about Deron Williams this season is his points per game improvement graph, scoring more and more each month. That didn’t stop in the opening game for the Brooklyn Nets in the playoffs, leading his team, along with Brook Lopez who had too little resistance from the overwhelmed Chicago Bulls under the basket, beginning the franchise’s new postseason history in a perfect way.
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Brook Lopez With the Poster Dunk on Robin Lopez
Brotherly love has no room on the basketball courts, and Brook Lopez, the better of the Lopez brothers in the NBA, showed that with a vicious dunk on his twin brother, Robin Lopez, as the Brooklyn Nets dispatched of the New Orleans Hornets.
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Biggest Snubs From the 2013 NBA All-Star Game
Every All-Star game selection is a reason not only to celebrate those making the game for the first time, but those NBA players who deserved a spot on it but didn’t make it. Stand-out names this season? Stephen Curry leads the bunch, with Brook Lopez and Brandon Jennings also included on the snub list.
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Oklahoma City Thunder – So Bad Kevin Durant Gets Ejected
Sometimes great numbers don’t mean a thing. Both Russell Westbrook and Kevin Durant had great nights for the Oklahoma City Thunder. What you don’t play defense, it doesn’t really matter.
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Brooklyn Nets – Deron Williams Shines Through Injury
Some nights on a long NBA season mean more than others. The Brooklyn Nets shouldn’t be only about owning the city; this is about turning the franchise into a perennial playoff contender and even more, like it was a decade ago. Deron Williams, injured or not, is the center of all that hope and ambition.
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8 NBA & NFL Players During Their College Days
It’s easy to forget that student-athletes, especially the big stars of those student athletes who gain a lot of attention from the NBA and the NFL from the first snap and dribble they take in college uniform, had an actual college life, more or less. Michael Jordan dressed awkwardly, Wilt Chamberlain read books between beginning his 20,000 legacy and Robin & Brook Lopez were always together.
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Brooklyn Nets – Presenting the Core Four
In order to lure fans and get them excited about the Nets’ first season in Brooklyn, the franchise decided to take Deron Williams, Joe Johnson, Brook Lopez and Gerald Wallace and label them as the ‘Core Four’; Big X just doesn’t cut it anymore, and this isn’t exactly the most impressive bunch of superstars ever assembled.
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NBA Free Agency 2012 – Dwight Howard Not Going to the Nets
According to multiple NBA sources, the Orlando Magic and the Brooklyn Nets aren’t in business anymore, the business of Dwight Howard. Although who knows what the future may bring, it seems that the biggest trade waiting to happen won’t involve the Nets, who have given up on trying to work out something with Rob Hennigan.