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| Heat, Nets go at it in south Florida |
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11/14/2009 |
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| (MySportsbook) - The Miami Heat hope to bounce back from a loss to one of the NBA's heavyweights when they host the hapless New Jersey Nets Saturday. The Heat lost for just the second time this season on Thursday when LeBron James finished with 34 points, including 16 from the free throw line, to help Cleveland to a 111-104 victory over Dwyane Wade and Miami. Wade finished with a game-high 36 points, but it was James and the Cavaliers who came away with the win. James, who also had seven assists, scored Cle |
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| National Basketball Association Game Capsules |
NBA Basketball |
11/14/2009 |
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| Orlando, FL (MySportsbook) - Dwight Howard's 26 points, 12 rebounds and five blocks powered Orlando to an 88-72 victory over the only winless team in the NBA, the New Jersey Nets. The outcome extended the worst start in Nets history through nine games. Former Net Vince Carter notched 10 of his 14 points in the fourth quarter, and Jason Williams came off the bench to score all nine of his points in final 12 minutes to help Orlando pull away. Matt Barnes ended with 13 points, 13 rebounds and five assists, whi |
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| Magic send Nets to 0-9 start |
NBA Basketball |
11/13/2009 |
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| Orlando, FL (MySportsbook) - Dwight Howard's 26 points, 12 rebounds and five blocks powered Orlando to an 88-72 victory over the only winless team in the NBA, the New Jersey Nets. The outcome extended the worst start in Nets history through nine games. Former Net Vince Carter notched 10 of his 14 points in the fourth quarter, and Jason Williams came off the bench to score all nine of his points in final 12 minutes to help Orlando pull away. Matt Barnes ended with 13 points, 13 rebounds and five assists, whi |
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| Jazz, Sixers meet in Philly |
NBA Basketball |
11/13/2009 |
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| igits in points, and will also visit the Cleveland Cavaliers on the current swing. Utah will be short-handed tonight as Williams has been excused from the team for a personal matter. Philadelphia ended a two-game slide with an 82-79 victory over the New Jersey Nets at the IZOD Center on Wednesday, as Thaddeus Young scored 20 points and came up with the game-sealing steal in the waning seconds to lead the way. Marreese Speights chipped in 19 points and nine rebounds, while Lou Williams added 10 points and seven |
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| Winless Nets visit central Florida to take on Magic |
NBA Basketball |
11/13/2009 |
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| (MySportsbook) - New Jersey Nets head coach Lawrence Frank is probably feeling the heat with his team off to a franchise-worst 0-8 start. Frank will guide the Nets once again tonight against the Orlando Magic at Amway Arena with hopes of finally capturing that elusive first victory. Frank is well aware Byron Scott just got the boot in New Orleans and his time could be up soon too if New Jersey doesn't find the win column fast. The last remaining winless team in the NBA, the Nets dropped to 0-8 this season f |
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| Hornets fire Byron Scott |
NBA Basketball |
11/12/2009 |
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| ach of the Hornets for the season before Scott's arrival, with Bower as an assistant, and led the team to a record of 41-41. He was most-recently the head coach at Southern California from 2005-09. Before taking over in New Orleans, Scott guided the New Jersey Nets to a record of 149-139 with a pair of NBA Finals appearances in three-plus seasons. After leading the previously-moribund Nets to the league title series in the spring of 2002 and 2003, Scott was fired with a 22-20 mark midway through the 2003-04 ca |
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| Sixers to face winless Nets in divisional clash |
NBA Basketball |
11/11/2009 |
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| (MySportsbook) - The New Jersey Nets are already off to the worst start in franchise history and will try again to crack the win column tonight, when the team faces the Atlantic Division-rival Philadelphia 76ers at the IZOD Center. New Jersey suffered its seventh loss to open the season with Saturday's 86-76 setback versus fellow Atlantic Division member Boston, with Brook Lopez scoring a team-high 23 points and pulling down seven rebounds in defeat. Rafer Alston netted 20 points for the Nets, who committed |
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| Nets struggle on court, await brighter future |
NBA Basketball |
11/10/2009 |
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EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. (AP) -Russian tycoon Mikhail Prokhorov knew the New Jersey Nets were rebuilding when he agreed to spend $200 million to buy the NBA franchise and help move it to Brooklyn. The richest man in Russia may need some more of his money to turn around one of the NBA's worst teams. Seven games into the season, the Nets are the league's only winless team, and that's not all that's gone wrong in the franchise's worst start. Four starters are sidelined - seven total - including one with the |
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| Nets forward Chris Douglas-Roberts has swine flu |
NBA Basketball |
11/07/2009 |
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EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. (AP) -The New Jersey Nets say forward Chris Douglas-Roberts has swine flu. Douglas-Roberts already had been sidelined with flu-like symptoms. Nets president Rod Thorn confirmed on Saturday that Douglas-Roberts tested positive for the H1N1 virus. Thorn says the player has been treated and the Nets are following all precautionary measures called for by the NBA. The diagnosis is the latest blow to a team that has been hit by a wave of injuries. The Nets are the only team in the leag |
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| Nets F Douglas-Roberts diagnosed with swine flu |
NBA Basketball |
11/07/2009 |
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| East Rutherford, NJ (MySportsbook) - New Jersey Nets forward Chris Douglas- Roberts has tested positive for the H1N1 virus. Nets President Rod Thorn made the announcement Saturday that Douglas-Roberts has contracted swine flu, but that he has been treated accordingly for the illness. In five games this season, Douglas-Roberts has averaged 15.6 points and 4.8 rebounds. |
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