Why can a team pay one of its own players more than the cap allows?
Because of Bird rights, which take three seasons on the same roster to earn.
Brooklyn, the league around it, and the numbers underneath
Five questions the season keeps asking
How does the worst record in the league end up picking fifth?
The lottery draws four balls from fourteen; the flattened odds do the rest.
What does a two-way contract actually buy a front office?
Three roster spots outside the fifteen, and a player who spends most of the year in the G League.
Which number should replace field goal percentage when you read a box score?
True shooting, because it counts a three and a free throw at what they are worth.
How long had Brooklyn been without a professional team before 2012?
Fifty-five years — the Dodgers left after the 1957 season.
The read
One longer piece to start with.
From New Jersey to Brooklyn: how the move happened
An arena fight, a change of owner and a borough that had been without a team since 1957.
Feature
Nets
The club, night by night: the roster, the rotation, the games that are already history.
All of Nets
Opinion
Is Brooklyn an attractive destination for free-agents?
Through 48 games this season, the Brooklyn Nets sport a dismal 12-36 record, thus flushing my (apparently delusional) hopes for an eighth seed playoff berth down the metaphorical toilet.
Column · 2015-16 season
Opinion
The Brooklyn Nets without Billy King, what could have been
In July 2010, the New Jersey Nets hired Billy King to be their general manager and to help build a championship team heading into Brooklyn. However, it seems as though King did the exact opposite.
Column · 2015-16 season
Opinion
Brooklyn Nets have changed for the better
One of the most surprising teams of this young season has been the Brooklyn Nets. Unfortunately for the Nets, their start to the season wasn’t exactly what they had in mind.
Column · 2015-16 season
Opinion
Brooklyn Nets: Why Playoff Hopes Are Still Alive
Amidst a season with low expectations, high hopes and unbridled determination, a Brooklyn Nets team that started their season with seven straight losses now sits at 6-15 through six weeks of the regular season.
Column · 2015-16 season
NBA
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Roster move · 2014-15 season
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Roster move · 2014-15 season
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Roster move · 2014-15 season
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Roster move · 2014-15 season
Explainers
How the game and the league actually work, written for someone who did not grow up with the rulebook.
All of Explainers
Explainers
Bird rights: how teams overpay their own
The exception that lets a club go past the cap for a player it already has — and the three years it takes to earn it.
Explainer
Explainers
Clear path fouls, explained
Four conditions have to be true at once. Miss one and it is an ordinary foul instead of two shots and the ball.
Explainer
Explainers
Defensive three seconds, the rule nobody sees called
A technical foul for standing still. Where the count starts, what resets it and why it exists at all.
Explainer
Explainers
Goaltending and basket interference: where the line is
Two violations, one rim, and a boundary drawn by the cylinder above it.
Explainer
Explainers
How the draft lottery odds actually work
A thousand and one combinations, four balls and a machine. Why the worst record can still fall to fifth.
Explainer
Numbers
Statistics read slowly: what each number measures, and what it quietly leaves out.
All of Numbers
Numbers
Box plus/minus and VORP, explained
Two baselines — league average and a replacement player — and the gap between them, priced in wins.
Explainer
Numbers
Net rating and on/off: reading a team by possessions
Points per hundred possessions at both ends, and what the on/off split does and does not prove.
Explainer
Numbers
Pace and possessions: the hidden variable in every per-game number
Why a scoring average tells you as much about the clock as about the shooter.
Explainer
Numbers
Player efficiency rating, and why analysts argue about it
A per-minute box-score summary pegged to a league average of 15 — and blind to most of defence.
Explainer
Numbers
True shooting percentage: the number that replaced field goal percentage
One figure that counts threes and free throws at what they are actually worth.
Explainer
History
The franchise before now — the ABA, New Jersey, and the long road across the river.
All of History
History
From New Jersey to Brooklyn: how the move happened
An arena fight, a change of owner and a borough that had been without a team since 1957.
Feature
History
The ABA years: what the Nets were before the NBA
Two championships, a red-white-and-blue ball, and the entry fee that cost the franchise its best player.
Feature
History
Brooklyn Nets Preview Throwback ABA-inspired Jerseys
The Brooklyn Nets will pay tribute to the team’s rich history with the new ABA-inspired jerseys, which were worn from 1972-1976 by the New Jersey Nets. Today, the team released a sneak peak of their new ABA-inspired jerseys.
Preview · 2014-15 season
History
Nets Win First Game in Lionel Hollins Era
The Brooklyn Nets recorded their first win in the Lionel Hollins era with a 102-90 victory over the Pistons.
Game report · 2014-15 season
History
Top 10 Moments in Brooklyn Part 1
In what has been an eventful and exciting first two seasons in Brooklyn, the Nets have had many ups and downs. Although they have not been able to achieve the ultimate goal of a championship, the Nets have had a successful first couple of season after their move from New Jersey. This article is the first part of a two part series in which I will rank the top 10 moments in Brooklyn Nets’ history.
Column · 2014-15 season
Brooklyn
Choosing a seat at Barclays Center
Five tiers, and what the floor actually looks like from each one.
Guide
Brooklyn
Getting to Barclays Center: the transit guide
Nine subway lines, the Long Island Rail Road and one staircase that comes up inside the plaza.
Guide
Brooklyn
James Dolan to Knicks fan: start rooting for the Nets “because the Knicks don't want you.”
New York Knicks chairman and Cablevision CEO James Dolan lashed out at a lifelong a Knicks fan, suggesting that the fan should start rooting for the Nets “because the Knicks don’t want you.”
Feature · 2014-15 season
Brooklyn
D-Rose Beats Nets For First Time At Barclays Center
The Bulls ended in a lopsided victory against the Brooklyn Nets. They beat the Nets 102-84.
Game report · 2014-15 season
Ways in
Three ways through the paper besides the sections in the masthead.
The archive
The old site season by season, kept as it was filed, with the categories it used.
2014-15–2015-16 · 8 categories
The editorial team
Who wrote what, how the archive is credited, and who answers for a correction.
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