New Jersey Nets

The DC/Petro/Kenny Nets

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From time to time, we like to do deep dives on interesting teams of the past, like the Penny/Shaq Magic or the Barkley Rockets, that came close to the threshold only to fall apart.  Today, we are going to look at a team that never really came close to winning but was always interesting to me, the Derrick Coleman/Kenny Anderson Nets of the early 1990s.  This duo was billed as the Stockton/Malone of the 1990s.  Alas, DC and Kenny were deemed to be the ultimate Generation X slackers, … [Read more...] about The DC/Petro/Kenny Nets

Re-Visiting The Nets Sale of Dr. J and Their Tiny Replacement

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A few weeks ago, we did a review of the best small forwards of the last 40 years.  In this review, we concluded that Julius Erving, by NBA stats alone, was even better than I remembered (most of my direct memories of Dr. J related to his later career, when he was still very good not quite the same player).  That and some stuff I was reading about Tiny Archibald got me thinking about Erving and how he got to Philly in the first place. I thought we could revisit how the Nets ever sold … [Read more...] about Re-Visiting The Nets Sale of Dr. J and Their Tiny Replacement

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