Where Joe Goes
The Marbury/Kidd Trade + Rod Thorn's Draft Night Moves. Reactions
from around the league to the Nets' two big summer shake-ups.
Funny
Business. Quotes from around our terribly humorous league, and beyond.
September
11th. Quotes centered around the terrorist attacks on America.
Gut
Punch. Ow. Harsh words that may take the wind out of you.
Inspirational
Verses. Good News for Modern Nets fans.
CNN/SI Basketball
Pretty amazing, entertaining site. Power rankings, NBA Week at a Glance,
and great sort 'em yourself stat section.
NJ Online Nets Section
Nets news from the Newark Star Ledger. Don Burke, Nets beat, and Dave
D'Alessandro, one of our favorite b-ball writers.
NYPost Sports Section
Freddy Kerber, Nets beat reporter, and you have to read Peter Vecsey Tuesdays,
Fridays and Sundays. Nobody is more "inside" than Vecsey. Phil
Mushnik entertains Champagne on Fridays, Sundays and Mondays.
NBA.com
For obvious reasons. Links to every team site, plus a standings page that
gives teams' conference rankings helps you chart Nets early drop from
playoff picture.
Nets
Salaries
Want to know why the Nets can't improve? Check this chart, along with
all other team salaries, courtesy of USA Today. Their NBA
section sometimes informative too.
Nets/NBA
page, Bergen Record
Steve Adamek, Nets beat. Adrian Wojnarowski and Steve Adamek are two of
the best pull-no-punches writers on the Nets.
NY Daily News Basketball page
Michael James, Nets beat
NY Times Basketball page
Liz Robbins, Nets beat. Mike Wise covers the league, and Champagne likes
Harvey Araton's general sports columns.
Sporting News NBA Section
Excellent NBA coverage. We like both Sean Deveney's columns and his very
entertaining Mailbag.
New
Jersey Nets Photo Zone
Jim Poorten's site.
HoopsAvenue
NBA news, fantasy leagues plus.
InsideHoops.com
Large news and rumors clearinghouse.
American
Red Cross,
Helping.org and Libertyunites.org
Relief Organizations.
September 11th
Quotes centered around the terrorist attacks on America:
Wouldn't That Mean They've Won?
"I'll bet that the parking lot exits featured almost everyone adhering to the unwritten, common decency rules of the alternate feed. And I'll bet that people waved their thanks to one another - saluted one another's kindness - even though alternate feeds should be more a case of second nature than good nature." - Phil Mushnick on the return to common decency in the parking lots surrounding sporting events, September 24, 2001
Humanity Itself
"It is completely forbidden in Islam to kill innocent people. Those acts have therefore no spiritual basis. What happened are simply cold-blooded murders. God almighty, in our holy book the Qu'ran, states that for one to take a life unjustly is as if he killed humanity itself." - Tariq Abdul-Wahad, Denver Nuggets
"I don't regret any position that I've taken in the past or any comments that I have made. My approach may have been a little different. [...] I'll quote one of the senators, that terrorism has no basis in any religious doctrine. We don't condone terrorism. [...] Whoever did it, whether it be a Christian, Muslim or Jew, I don't think a whole segment of people should be implicated." - Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf, imam of the Masjid al-Haqq (House of the Truth) in Gulfport, MS, and former NBA player who refused to stand for the National Anthem while with the Nuggets in 1996. He was suspended and sat out one game before deciding he would stand and pray while the anthem was played
"My reaction, beyond the sadness for the lives that were lost, is that this is a very big setback for us. The Muslims in America are now the images of the crime and this fulfills the stereotype. It puts us in a very bad position, all the way back to almost the beginning, to having to explain to a country where we are still in the great minority that the actions of a few cannot be allowed to represent all Muslims." - Hakeem Olajuwon. All quotes as reported by Ohm Youngmisuk, NY Daily News, September 22, 2001
Archive | Backlash | Bio | Calendar | Champagne's Blog | Diatribe | Game x Game | History | Home | Joe Netsfan's Blog | Media | Opponents | Players | Playoffs | Search | Specials
© 2001 Shawn Belschwender and Michael Kozlowski
