Brook Lopez injured

[smw6230]

A full season with a healthy D-Will, plus a healthy Lopez who played and was recovering from mono and calcium deposit, along with Shawne Williams, Kris Humphries, DeShawn Stevenson, MarShon Brooks, a healthy Damion James, and Morrow isn't a 35 win team?

Edit: If we're talking about 82-game schedule, that team definitely wins more than 35. In a shortened season, I still think they'd could reach that win total.

I don't disagree with that. I guess my main bone was the contention that NJ and NY would be battling it out for the 8th spot.

NJ will obviously be better with a full season of Deron. By the same token its not realistic to expect the Knicks to be 10 games worse then they were last year after they traded 5 of their top 7 players for Anthony.

In truth both teams will get better. Given that I just don't see how NJ makes up a 20 game record difference.

[beanbryant]

No more Dwight Howard pipe dream. The most important issue is to keep Deron on the team now.

[KMartsCrew]

Yeah, it's a pipe dream to talk about getting a guy who's asked his team to trade him to the NETS and whose option number 1 is coming to the NETS with us having the cap space to sign him outright in the summer.

[stephGRAHAMbury]

No more Dwight Howard pipe dream. The most important issue is to keep Deron on the team now.

The funny thing is that when you ask someone to explain why the Lopez injury puts the Nets out of the race for Dwight Howard they can never give you an answer to that question

I'll repeat what I said before, this IS NOT NBA Live or NBA 2K, injured players can be traded. Given adequate time Lopez will heal and be back to 100%, he's not like say Andrew Bynum where his knees have already been shredded and it's pretty much a forgone conclusion that he will not hold up over the long-term.

If the Nets tank they'll have a high lottery pick to throw in a sign-and-trade, if they overachieve they head into the trade deadline / offseason poised to move into a new arena, an excited Deron, and enough cap space to land Dwight Howard while giving Orlando no compensation.

Whether you want to admit it or not the Nets are not, and will not, be out of the race for Dwight until Dwight Howard signs an extension or is traded to another team with an elite talent.

[NYK StateOfMind]

As a Knicks fan, all I know is this... If NJ ends up with a top 5 pick, land Dwight Howard as a free agent while keeping their young talent ala Brook Lopez along with an extension of Deron Williams and it's a wrap... Scary potential contender.

[Ronito]

Yeah, it's a pipe dream to talk about getting a guy who's asked his team to trade him to the NETS and whose option number 1 is coming to the NETS with us having the cap space to sign him outright in the summer.

I don't he knows what a pipe dream is.

[NyCeEvO]

As a Knicks fan, all I know is this... If NJ ends up with a top 5 pick, land Dwight Howard as a free agent while keeping their young talent ala Brook Lopez along with an extension of Deron Williams and it's a wrap... Scary potential contender.

If we're that bad where we get a top 5 pick (unless the lottery rewards us ), it's going to be a painful season lol.

[bimmer100]

No more Dwight Howard pipe dream. The most important issue is to keep Deron on the team now.

The funny thing is that when you ask someone to explain why the Lopez injury puts the Nets out of the race for Dwight Howard they can never give you an answer to that question

I'll repeat what I said before, this IS NOT NBA Live or NBA 2K, injured players can be traded. Given adequate time Lopez will heal and be back to 100%, he's not like say Andrew Bynum where his knees have already been shredded and it's pretty much a forgone conclusion that he will not hold up over the long-term.

If the Nets tank they'll have a high lottery pick to throw in a sign-and-trade, if they overachieve they head into the trade deadline / offseason poised to move into a new arena, an excited Deron, and enough cap space to land Dwight Howard while giving Orlando no compensation.

Whether you want to admit it or not the Nets are not, and will not, be out of the race for Dwight until Dwight Howard signs an extension or is traded to another team with an elite talent.

I stopped reading when I read sign in trade in the middle of the season and including a lottery pick in a sign and trade. Please stop talking, you sound foolish.

[Serpo]

Why are you still here don't have a own team forum where you can annoy people ? You're just an obvious troll that should've been banned from here several posts ago .....

People here don't care about you and your opinion so GFTO here and never come back.

[NyCeEvO]

I stopped reading when I read sign in trade in the middle of the season and including a lottery pick in a sign and trade. Please stop talking, you sound foolish.

You sound foolish for ever suggesting that we'd trade you D-Will.

How are you, an LA fan, to tell a Nets fan to stop talking on a NETS board? Please, we're tired of your nonsense. Just go...

[treiz]

No more Dwight Howard pipe dream. The most important issue is to keep Deron on the team now.

The funny thing is that when you ask someone to explain why the Lopez injury puts the Nets out of the race for Dwight Howard they can never give you an answer to that question

I'll repeat what I said before, this IS NOT NBA Live or NBA 2K, injured players can be traded. Given adequate time Lopez will heal and be back to 100%, he's not like say Andrew Bynum where his knees have already been shredded and it's pretty much a forgone conclusion that he will not hold up over the long-term.

If the Nets tank they'll have a high lottery pick to throw in a sign-and-trade, if they overachieve they head into the trade deadline / offseason poised to move into a new arena, an excited Deron, and enough cap space to land Dwight Howard while giving Orlando no compensation.

Whether you want to admit it or not the Nets are not, and will not, be out of the race for Dwight until Dwight Howard signs an extension or is traded to another team with an elite talent.

I stopped reading when I read sign in trade in the middle of the season and including a lottery pick in a sign and trade. Please stop talking, you sound foolish.

And why does that sound foolish exactly?