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Brooklyn Kids Go Wild Over Nets
Although the visit was announced and publicized, the arrival of three Nets players made students at the Brooklyn High School for Leadership and Community Service scream, cheer and even cry. Deron Williams, Kris Humphries and DeShawn Stevenson ran a basketball clinic at the school but also had a lot...
Nets Talk To Kids in NJ, BKLYN
The Nets will have the rare luxury of three days off this week (before embarking on another five games in six days). Monday, six of the Nets will be doing what has become commonplace nowadays: community events in both New Jersey and Brooklyn. Anthony Morrow and Jordan Farmar will visit and sign...
Merry Christmas To All Nets Fans!
We wish you a Merry Christmas with hopes for better days ahead for all. So in the holiday spirt, we offer this video of the Nets providing holiday cheer last week at the Bedford-Stuyvesant Community Center in Brooklyn, produced by BrooklynFans.com.
Making Christmas Merry in NJ, BKN
While the front office was putting the final touches on a Kris Humphries contract and even getting him a physical, his teammates, old and new, were in full Christmas mode, visiting a children's hospital in New Jersey and a community center in Brooklyn. Brook Lopez, Anthony Morrow, Stephen Graham,...
Yormark's Dinner with a Difference
It was billed as a Nets community event, with Brett Yormark serving Thanksgiving meals Saturday afternoon in East New York, one of Brooklyn's poorest neighborhoods. But this one had a difference. Yormark personally paid for the meals and dished them out with his children, aged 10 and 7, along...
Avery Spends His Time Preaching
This time of year, Avery Johnson would, in normal times, be screaming and running up and down the sideline. Not in 2011. So Johnson has been spending a lot time talking to kids, from grade school to college, in New Jersey and Brooklyn, Texas and his native Louisiana. This month is typical. On...
Billy King On Magic's Journey
Billy King was a coach at Illinois State University 20 years ago when Magic Johnson announced that he had AIDS and would have to retire. He spoke with Bloomberg TV this week on the implications of that day, and not just about how Magic made athletes AIDS aware. King also speaks about the value...
Players Out; Overton, Marks Fill In
Normally, NBA players would be out and about this time of year, visiting schools, opening playgrounds, etc. But with the lockout still on, it's been up to the coaches and team executives to fill in. Tuesday at 4 p.m., Doug Overton will tip-off the Nets "Passport to Fitness" program at PNY Center by...
For Lopez, an Unforgettable Trip
Brook Lopez was one of nine NBA stars, including his brother, Robin, and MVP Derrick Rose, to travel to Hawaii last week on a low-key trip to Hawaii to visit US troops and their families. Media access was deliberately limited as the players showed their stuff in games, chatted with the servicemen...
D-Will Stars in Quake Relief Tourney
Top teams from Turkey and surrounding countries, among them the Besiktas Black Eagles, have been busy this week, playing in hastily arranged charity tournament for victims of the earthquake that devastated the city of Van near the Iranian border. And once again, Deron Williams has...
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