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New Jersey Nets aren’t focused on getting LeBron James’ attention, they just want to get wins
LeBron James and the Cavaliers come to East Rutherford tonight for the last time this season, but the Nets do not see this as a last chance to impress the impending free agent.

Devin Harris said the team cannot think beyond tonight.”We’re just trying to get a win,” Harris said. “We play them pretty well. We come out and play hard.”

The Nets (6-53) are struggling to find four more victories in their last 23 games to avoid the infamy of breaking the mark for fewest wins in a season, which is nine by the 1972-73 Philadelphia 76ers.

If putting up a fight is appealing to James, then the Nets have done a better job than the Knicks. The Nets’ worst loss to the Cavaliers this season was by 10 points, while the Knicks took a 31-point beating in Cleveland Monday night.

Tonight, however, the Nets will face a different challenge against the Cavaliers, with center Shaquille O’Neal out for six to eight weeks after thumb surgery.
NY Daily News

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Yes, of course the New Jersey Nets lost against the Miami Heat, but you shouldn’t be so negative. The glass is half full of Brook Lopez dunking on Joel Anthony, not half empty my friend.

Okay, maybe the headline is a tad dramatic, but these bastards have lost 18 games in a row and they need a little positive reinforcement for finally bagging a win. After 38 days of racking up L’s, like a college freshman rack’s up Mom and Dad’s credit card bill.

The Nets beat the Charlotte Bobcats (ha-ha) 97-91 in front of 12,131 faithful fans at the IZOD Center. Notching their first win of the season –no seriously, they really won.

“Man, it’s a nice one to have off your back,” said Lopez, who dominated the Bobs for 31 points and 14 boards. “First win, now we have to string it together. It was definitely a great feeling in here.”

“It feels good. We brought great energy,” said Devin Harris, whose dive over three rows of seats in the final minute of the game illustrated that perfectly. “We didn’t play great at all times, but we fought through. They made a run, we didn’t fold.”

It’s good to see this group get a win because they actually compete every night. All they have to do know is win 9 more games to avoid finishing with the worst record in NBA history. Let’s see how this one plays out.

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Another van glorious season of NBA basketball is about to begin and Hooped Up does a quick and dirty preview of all 30 clubs — so lets go!

This year the New Jersey Nets have 99 problems and staying out of the draft lottery will not be one.

Last season, the Nets stumbled to a 34-48 record in the Atlantic and after trading away Vince Carter for maybe too little in return. That record will be continuing south in ’09-10 like the mercury in Newark on a cold winters day. BRRR!

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In his first full season in New Jersey Devin Harris emerged as an All Star, averaging 21.3 points per game and nearly 7 assists a night for a 34-win team. Now it looks like the Nets could be willing to part ways with the 26-year old point guard to improve their position in next week’s NBA draft.

According to a report in the Memphis Commercial Appeal, the Memphis Grizzlies have fielded offers for the No. 2 pick in the draft, and the Nets might be willing to part ways Harris for that slot in the draft.

If that deal came together, the Nets would have the second and eleventh picks in the draft. They have no second-round selections.

Staten Island Advance

The Nets are on the outside looking in at the 8th seed in the east, and with Devin Harris injured things ain’t looking so good for New Jersey. At least Devin Harris has a hot girlfriend to ease the pain.  The soul crushing and disappointing  pain.

“Devin Harris wasn’t even at Madison Square Garden Wednesday night, and judging by the comments of Nets GM Kiki Vandeweghe, it doesn’t sound as though the All-Star point guard will be able to help the team anytime soon. While neither Vandeweghe nor coach Lawrence Frank would give a timetable for Harris’ return from two separate injuries to his left shoulder, Vandeweghe dismissed any possibility Harris — who was injured Sunday night and has missed two games — could be back for the Nets’ next game, Friday against Miami.”

Via Newark Star-Ledger

Honestly, I never though Devin Harris was going to be a good pro when I watched him play for Wisconsin.

When he was acquired by the Dallas Mavericks on draft night from the Wizards, I still didn’t see it. After he got traded to the Nets and got proper housed in the UK — again, I still didn’t see it.

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The NBA 08-09 All-Star rosters have been officially revealed and I can’t help to notice that a certain Canadian is missing from the All-Star proceedings and I say BOOO NBA, BOOO!!! I am however liking the Shaquille O’Neal and Chris Bosh selection though.

Either way, the All-Star game should be a video game style affair none the less as per usual. 

Below are your East and West reserves.

West Conference Reserves
Shaquille O’Neal, Pau Gasol, David West, Dirk Nowitzki, Tony Parker, Chauncey Billups and Brandon Roy.

Eastern Conference Reserves 
Jameer Nelson ,Rashard Lewis, Paul Pierce, Joe Johnson, Chris Bosh, Devin Harris and Danny Granger.

Via Yahoo!

Devin Harris is stuck in beast mode these days like the Critical Beatdown album is stuck in my iPod and apparently this extends past the basketball court. Today on Howard Stern a new game was introduced called “Are you dumb as a rock?” and one of the contestants was Playboy Cyber Girl Meghan Allen who revealed herself (snicker) as the girlfriend of New Jersey Nets point guard Devin Harris. Well done sir, well done.

Some how getting traded and humiliated on YouTube has done wonders for Devin Harris. Ain’t it ironic?

More pics of the Devin Harris lucky streak after the jump…

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The way Devin Harris is playing these days, he’s definitely the President in New Jersey, and that’s why his teammates treat him like one in this video.  

Has anybody ever been so fueled by an English men, as Devin Harris clearly is, I ask you?