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Rick Carlisle: ‘In 2011, it was either now or never. The team was aging. The veterans were still at in a part of their prime. Jason Terry was still great, Dirk was great, Jason Kidd was 37 and he was still playing at a very high level. He almost won the MVP a few years earlier with the Nets. I mean, the Nets were an autumn feeder and the Jason Kidd got traded to New Jersey and they had them in the finals twice, you know, so that he still could have that kind of impact. We traded for Tyson Chandler who gave us a defensive guy similar to yourself, very energetic, very vocal, very positive, very upbeat, totally only into winning, and Shawn Marion was a very underrated player. You can make a case that Shawn Marion could be in a conversation for Hall of Fame on a many multiple year, all-star type thing, championship player, great two-way player. He had an unconventional game, but he was an original in his purest form. It was clear to us heading into that final series that we had to have a very simple plan and a big part of it was going to have to be persistence.’
Nick DePaula: Kyrie Irving is kicking off his latest ANTA Tour this week — with a World Tour summer schedule featuring cities throughout Asia and in the US. The Las Vegas and New Jersey dates in July will also include Irving’s “Uncle Drew Circuit” youth basketball tournament games.
NBA Central: Most tickets for Game 5 in San Antonio are being purchased by New Yorkers, with 37% of sales coming from New York. The get-in price has also surged by $1,000 following the Knicks’ Game 4 win Top billing states: • New York — 37% • Texas — 12% • New Jersey — 8% (Ticket prices via @TickPick )
Trump arrived in Manhattan just before 7:20 p.m. ET on Marine One, taking a short flight from New Jersey. The motorcade took the Franklin D. Roosevelt East River Drive from Wall Street up to the Garden, passing several Knicks watch parties along the way. Reporters traveling with Trump counted two middle fingers and one thumbs down, signs that said “Nobody wants you here,” “Trump must go,” and “Impeach. Convict. Remove.”
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Officials say they'll be ready if there's an NBA Finals game in Manhattan on June 16, the same day of the World Cup match between France and Senegal at the New Jersey stadium. "This is a moment we've been preparing for, we've been hoping for and we feel fully prepared for," Mamdani said. At the press conference, state and local officials also detailed security arrangements designed to reduce the risk of crime and terrorism.
A New Jersey native, Towns also explained why he chose the Knicks over the Nets. “My mom, when she immigrated here, she understood the magnitude of Madison Square Garden,” Towns said. “… I grew up, obviously, in Jersey, obviously it was so much easier for me to get New Jersey Nets tickets and see Kenyon Martin, Vince Carter, Jason Kidd, but my family has always had such respect and love for the Knicks and my father having ties to the Knicks, it was kind of guaranteed I was going to fall into this world of being a Knicks fan growing up.”
NJ Transit won’t change World Cup plans to give Knicks fans a direct ride to a historic playoff home game — favoring soccer tourists over local sports lovers, officials said. New York City’s on-fire hometown team will host the NBA finals at Madison Square Garden for the first time in nearly 30 years — potentially including a high-stakes Game 6 on June 16, the same day a match between France and Senegal is set to kick off at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, NJ.
Three weeks ago, at the end of a discussion of her first 100 days as governor of New Jersey at Newark’s Performing Arts Center, Mikie Sherill faced a series of rapid-fire questions from NJ.com political editor Brent Johnson. The subjects ranged from personal issues to state policy. But then a little more than an hour into the video, she faced an odd inquiry about the Brooklyn nee New Jersey Nets, long gone from Newark’s Prudential Center and before that the Byrne/Continental/IZOD Center. Would she be interested in bringing the Nets back from Brooklyn where the team moved in 2012 after 35 years in N.J.? Yes, indeed, she told Johnson. “I mean, would I support it? I ask about it all the time,” Sherrill said. “I love the idea. So, I have been pressing for that. I haven’t made a lot of headway yet; you know, maybe in my second 100 days. “But I do think there is some work being done for some — I don’t know if I’m allowed to say too much about it — but some people are working on some different sports coming into the Rock.”
The Nets are comfortably ensconced in the borough, about to play their 14th season at Barclays Center, the billion dollar arena that is now in the third year of a five-year, $140 million renovation. So has the governor and the Nets been in touch? Nope, according to the Nets. “There have been no conversations with ownership or leadership and the governor or her administration and we have no plans to bring the Brooklyn Nets back to New Jersey,” a league insider told ND in what amounts to a blanket denial. Why did the governor who’s still celebrating her political honeymoon make a commitment about what is decidedly not a big issue other than for a small minority of basketball fans? No idea, said the insider, calling the comments “very odd … “They’re perfectly happy in Brooklyn.”
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Shams Charania: The Sixers are going to be higher hiring a new head of basketball operations, someone that will now carry it forwards from a leadership perspective, but that person will partner with Bob Myers, who's the four-time championship executive and architect of the Golden State Warriors, and now he's the president of sports for multiple teams on the portfolios of owners Josh Harris and David Blitzer. Remember, Bob Myers oversaw the hiring of Adam Peters with the Washington commanders. He also oversaw the hiring of Sunny Mehta of the New Jersey Devils, and now the same for the Philadelphia 76ers. He is considered to be one of the most trusted people and executives and most sought after among high-level industry executives and even owners. So Bob Myers, I'm told, he's in Chicago right now meeting with the current 76ers staff that's still in place, the incumbent staff, and moving forward he's going to be a part of leading the process in the search for the next Sixers’ head executive.
It was the easiest “yes” of his career after Riccardi was denied 89 times by NBA teams for three years straight, he told The News in 2022, before former Nets executive Bobby Marks offered him the unpaid role. The big move coincided with three consecutive seasons of losing for the then-New Jersey Nets, but it was valuable on-the-job training for Riccardi, who learned the ropes under Marks and current general manager Sean Marks [no relation]. Once his internship ended, he officially joined the organization in 2010 as a basketball operations assistant. Over 13 years, Riccardi gained high-level experience in a variety of scouting and management responsibilities for the Nets, who, like the Mavericks, underwent significant changes. Brooklyn relocated from New Jersey and had three ownership changes, four general managers and 11 head coaches (six full-time and five interim), which is how Riccardi crossed paths with Kidd and Andrew Baker, now the Mavericks’ vice president of basketball strategy and analytics.
Towns has plans to donate his money to help the people of the Dominican Republic. Towns, who was born in New Jersey but plays internationally for the Dominican Republic because of his late mother’s roots, has earned approximately $300 million in NBA salary. “Honestly, I’ll probably give it to the Dominican Republic,” Towns said. “They have ‘Go Sports’, ‘Go Ministries’ over there. I feel very confident knowing the money will go over there and take care of the kids in the D.R. I would love to win so I can give them more money and help the community over there.”
LeBron James’s 2003-04 Upper Deck Ultimate Collection Logoman patch one-of-one autographed vertical rookie card. Where it could be: Somewhere in New Jersey…or anywhere else in the world. This James card was one of the earliest NBA Logoman chase cards, and according to a report in the July 2004 issue of Beckett Basketball, it was pulled from a box of UD Ultimate Collection at the time and promptly sold on eBay for $28,000 to “a guy in New Jersey.” Since then, however, the card has not been publicly seen.