With his team down 26 points to the Toronto Raptors late in the third quarter of a pivotal Game 5, Brooklyn Nets coach Jason Kidd had a decision to make. Coach Kidd could have turned the game over to his reserves and given his starters some rest as the team [...]
When Jason Kidd took the job as coach of the Brooklyn Nets, he did so with the knowledge that much of his team’s gameplan would center around its All-Star center, Brook Lopez. However, when Lopez went down with a season-ending injury, the plan changed. With Lopez gone and just Andray [...]
A little home cooking did a whole lot of good for the Brooklyn Nets on Friday night to regain momentum for the final push of the regular season. Brooklyn bounced back from Wednesday’s blowout loss to the cross-town rival New York Knicks with a 116-104 victory over the Detroit Pistons [...]
After going to overtime in each game of their recent three-city road trip, Coach Jason Kidd’s Brooklyn Nets were a bit tired of playing extra basketball. So when the Nets returned home on Friday to the friendly confines of Brooklyn’s Barclays Center, Paul Pierce tried to make certain in the [...]
There’s something big growing in New York’s Brooklyn borough. For the second straight game, the Brooklyn Nets thwarted a late comeback attempt from a playoff-caliber opponent and picked up a crucial victory in their climb toward the postseason, defeating the Charlotte Bobcats 104-99 at the Barclays Center on Wednesday night. [...]
Less than one month ago, the Brooklyn Nets and New York Knicks played Christmas Day matinees at their respective arenas and suffered 18 and 30-point losses respectively, dropping each team’s record to 9-19. Both teams appeared to be headed in the same direction: down. But since a 21-point loss to [...]
As the game ended on Tuesday night in Toronto, Coach Jason Kidd briefly stood near center court of the Air Canada Centre with his head in his hands. The Brooklyn Nets had just put an end to their losing streak, but it wasn’t easy. After developing a 15-point lead early [...]
Coach Jason Kidd opted to rest his entire starting lineup for the Nets’ penultimate preseason matchup with the Celtics on Wednesday night, but Brooklyn did get to see one of its key reserves make his unofficial team debut. Returning to Boston for the first time since the trade that sent [...]
It won’t go down in any record books, as preseason contests are often forgotten by time, but Jason Kidd will always remember October 8th as the night he won for the first time as a coach. Playing their first preseason game of the season on the road in Washington, D.C. [...]