#NetsWorld we are in sole possession of the 5th spot with room to fall.

Man, that’s a GREAT loss by Brooklyn right there. What a fight. Stupid errors cost us the game, but that’s effective tanking. The team FOUGHT. Traore’s best game in his career. Execution sucked but the kids showing flashes is what you love to see.

The Nets are fully healthy tonight (except for 5 guys but we know their deals)…

Oscar Voters when it’s time to not vote for Sinners:

Free roll tonight #NetsWorld! Win, and we get to kick the Knicks down the stairs of internal crisis. Lose, and well, the tank is the tank.

Anybody, ANYBODY that uses the term "luxury apartments" in an NYC context is telling on themselves. Every new building is luxury, so, every new building is bad. Just the easiest giveaway for an unserious, poisoned mind.

plus: www.bkmag.com/2026/01/21/i...

New @ocksportello.bsky.social just dropped. I repeat: Never Hungover is BACK.

The NCAA video game in 2000 had him and Boozer and J-Will as basically impregnable.

The Nets and Warriors haven’t talked about a Michael Porter Jr. trade prior to Jimmy Butler’s ACL tear. But does Butler’s injury change their stance? With Butler out, the Warriors and their “fading dynasty” are at a crossroads: frontofficesports.com/warriors-jim...

Overall, some in-person Nets observations: Cam is OOO. Jordi is working his ass off trying to find solutions. He’s communicating: a lot. All the time. There’s a good vibe to this club. If MPJ isn’t really firing we won’t win, but we will have fun.

The Suns official team account is dunking on our team, and even if we wanted to? We could not clap back BECAUSE WE DONT HAVE AN OFFICIAL ACCOUNT HERE. Cmon @nba.com let’s get this sorted.

Game changing switch of Ziaire Williams onto Brooks. The crowd is locked in on Brooks’ shenanigans.

In attendance at Barclays tonight. I’ll try to skeet but I find it rarely feels like the thing to do, in person. #NetsWorld how are we feeling?

The Nets can’t get involved with this guy, IMO. Just never, ever plays. AD-level of unavailability.

Standing outside 26 Federal Plaza this morning to call out a quiet injustice: asylum seekers facing pretermission without a fair hearing. This is the federal government denying due process. We must organize and pursue legal avenues to stop it.

I’ll say it again: I’m 100% for the Nets giving CP3 his send off, allow him to mentor the kids for half a season. Might go a long way with the superstar class.

Wow, Nets lose a squeaker AND Sacramento is digging themselves out of their grave AND the Knicks lost? Christmas in January.

I was keeping up on the Nets game on my phone, and the screen was minimized, so I caught a play where a big grabbed a nice pass and dunked it so fluidly I assumed it was Zion. It was Day Day. That guy is a fucking pro.

Quote posting a quote post - read up on Drake Powell and his pretty interesting potential!

Tanking masterclass by the Nets tonight. Perfectly timed my last game hooping of the night to see Drake hit that 3 to cut it to one. I kinda wanted MPJ to make that heave and…also kinda not! The tank contains multitudes.

Great work from Steve as ever here. I think Powell has a potential Day’Ron arc. Summer League will mean a LOT for him this summer (TBF I said the same re Dariq Whitehead last year, and he didn’t play at all).

Nets face a real tank-challenge game next up. Pelicans, with no incentive to lose. I wonder who’s about to develop a not-so-serious illness?

Locked On, and Erik leading it, has been the best podcast for what we are up to specifically. It does feel like the major narratives don’t change a whole heckuva lot tho, which is fine. Lucas is excellent as always.

Nurses show up in our darkest moments. 9/11. The pandemic. Every illness and emergency. Their worth is not negotiable. Fair pay, safe conditions, dignity now. NYC stands with nurses and demands good faith bargaining for justice and care for all.

My latest =>

This is accurate... www.instagram.com/reel/DTYwnCk...

I think the Nets have established they have 4 rookies that are better than Dzanan Musa at this stage. That’s success, to me.

@johnhollinger.bsky.social do I have to listen all the way to the end for you to chuck all the Nets’ kids into the woodchipper?

Winter Soldier, we are not done. We play Dallas tomorrow night… Тоска, Ржавый, Семнадцать, Рассвет, Печь, Девять, Доброжелательный, Возвращение домой, Один, Грузовой вагон

Uh oh, MPJ out for rest? But who, oh who will lead us to a close defeat, maintaining the tank?!? Egor Dëmin, 19yo:

Great tank loss once again. We never stopped fighting and made them beat the tar out of us ethically. Lots of good reps by the kids. Traore struck me as particularly locked in (not “good” exactly but encouraging.

Add James Harden to this.

Aaaaand we’re back in 5th. Need to get down to 4!

Egor choosing violence going for the dunk on Brook Lopez. What a kid.

This shows in the data what I see with my eyes. I think there’s some reticence to ever let the arena not be filled with noise for fear of quiet, but empty seats are not the Nets problem. We have fans. Just look at the Egor highlights of this week.

WHAT NETS FANS?! 🤣 open.substack.com/pub/deadboid...

And thank god for that. Kuminga doesn’t fit what the Nets are going for, sonic happy we aren’t skipping steps trying to grab him. I’d still like to see what he looks like in a different situation.

The thing about finding a way to live with people who are genuinely different from us is it is hard to do that when the differers show up in your neighborhood armed to the teeth and start shooting you

So…Heywood Highsmith…he ever gonna play? No offense to the guy, he seems locked in on the bench, but is he…locked onto the bench?

Mark Jones rides hard for the U. Depend on that.

This fuggin guy shouldn’t, and more importantly, cannot, win an election. We do not need 1990’s Republicans running as Dems. Hold some kind of line.

I never know what these semi-regional beefs are about but I’m happy they exist. I’m from Brooklyn we have better things to do lol

Don’t worry you guys I simmed the lottery and we’re good.

The Washington Wizards are acquiring Trae Young from the Atlanta Hawks for CJ McCollum and Corey Kispert, league sources confirm. Deal was first reported by ESPN. There are no draft picks involved in the trade.

If you told me before the season, the Nets would be: A) 11-23 B) a certified fun League Pass team C) Egor Dëmin is making the fanbase feel something D) MPJ and Clax have much improved trade value I would have said that sounds close to ideal.

The Nets accidentally drafted the spiritual successor to Klay Thompson and that’s very cool. Someone get Egor a bulldog.

I wrote this way back in the summer of 2020: Police, Social Order, and Exemplary Violence. Still holds up ok, IMO. patrickwyman.substack.com/p/police-soc...

I see this every couple days on this feed. It’s…just a bit weird.