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				2005 NBA Draft - June 30, 2005 Draft Feedback \| Who Had Wright In The Office Pool? "Last night (Monday night) around eleven o’clock when we finished up. We determined that we would take Wright if he was available." And that's how Antoine Wright became a Net, or so Rod Thorn would have you believe. The old face-saving "he was ours all along" or a pick made when the guys you really wanted were gone? You be the judge, but for now, Wright is penciled in for a rotation spot off the bench. "When you look at our team, we had an inconsistency in our wing players coming off the bench for the biggest part of the year. I think Antoine can help us in those areas, plus he is a very good shooter and a very good defender. Those are the kind of players that we like." Read all of Rod Thorn's press conference on the draft here. Anyone see that coming? The Nets choose 6' 7" G/F Antoine Wright from Texas A&M with their first round pick (#15) in the draft, passing on such available forwards as Hakim Warrick, Danny Granger, and Joey Graham. Wright's college stats can be found here. In the second round at #43, the Nets go foreign again and pick Serbia & Montenegro 7' 1" C Mile Ilic (just missing out on Pitt F Chris Taft). Other notable draft news: Utah C Andrew Bogut goes (no surprise) #1 to the Bucks; four national champion NC'ers go in the top 14 picks (M. Williams #2 to Atlanta, Felton #5 to Charlotte, May #13 to Charlotte and McCants #14 to Minnesota); Charlie Villanueva went to the Raptors at #7; the Knicks get their man Channing Frye at #8, and Utah and Portland trade picks (Utah got the #3 pick and drafted PG Deron Williams from Illinois, while Portland got the #6 pick and drafted G Martell Webster plus the #27 pick and a future first rounder). Enter The Dragon #5 - April 24, 2005 Blowin' Smoke, Dragon Style Updated! Another long-lost soul, our pal the Dragon, is back from his long rest to wrap up the 2004 - 2005 season in a way only he could: by expounding on everything that floats through his head. And there's lots of smoke being blown by Dragon - so much so, you'd think he was trying to elect a pope. Anyway, Dragon's got lots of thoughts on the season that was...Read on... Special - April 22, 2005 Joe's Expert Panel Predicts The Future III Results New! The final regular season scorecard for our annual Expert Panel Predictions has been tallied. What was expected to be a tight, three way race between the Dragon, Steve Politi and Joe was in fact a romp. Joe finishes number one with 11 teams picked exactly where they finished (including getting the entire SouthWest Division correct). In second place, our man Steve Politi, whose 8 correct picks was one more than our last place finisher, the Dragon. Special - March 21, 2005 The First Ever NBA Re-Draft III New! Part III of Lane Sorkin's mock NBA re-draft, starring all your favorite NBA personalities, has even more hilarious hijinks! Imagine Celine Dion at the podium with NBA Commish David Stern...Read on... Special - March 8, 2005 A Word About Bird Netsfans, we can't let Marv Albert be the voice of the Nets! I don't care about his Brooklyn roots, or his "best NBA basketball" announcer title. Do me, and yourselves, a favor. Complain, and complain loudly...Read on... Special - March 2, 2005 The First Ever NBA Re-Draft II Netsfan Lane Sorkin brings us Part II of his mock re-drafting of the NBA, starring all your favorite NBA personalities...Read on... ( Go to Part I) Special - February 21, 2005 The First Ever NBA Re-Draft Netsfan Lane Sorkin fills up the empty spaces (while Joe works on his mid-season report) with this mock re-drafting of the NBA by some of your favorite personalities from around the league...Part I follows, with Part II to come...Read on... Special - February 11, 2005 Bada Bing! It's been a long week here at JNF. To hopefully bring a smile of reflection back to Netsfans faces, Lane Sorkin remembers Drazen Petrovic, who's probably still shooting the three somewhere...Read on... Special - February 1, 2005 Interview With The Faces Of A Franchise Netsfan Lane Sorkin was imagines a sitdown between Kendall Gill, Derrick Coleman, Keith Van Horn, Benoit Benjamin, and Byron Scott, all former memorable faces around East Rutherford. His fantasy conversation, starring Duncan the former Net mascot, is just the sort of reminiscing we need of a franchise that's given New Jersey Netsfans as much comic fodder as inspired play...Read on... Special - January 19, 2005 This Just In Over The Wire... JNF readership is up? Just what the devil is going on? Could it be NetsNut that's behind this renewed interest? The AP has a special report, "Back In The Fold", on the latest doings in Netsland with Joe and his crew...Read on... Enter The Dragon #4 - December 24, 2004 Holiday Dragon Ah, 'tis the season to be generous and kind. OK, well maybe generous anyway. The Dragon is back with his NBA holiday gift list...Read on... Your View #1 - December 14, 2004 An Empty Suit In our first Your View of 2004 - 2005, NJAmericans67 attends the return of ex-Net coach Byron Scott with the Byron Scott fanclub. Hilarity ensues as Byron once again proves what rock-solid basketball coaching skills he has, according the NJAmericans...Read on... Enter The Dragon #3 - November 23, 2004 Welcome To The Season Of Ron Artest Oh, that's some mess that David Stern has on his hands, isn't it? Mental midget Ron Artest freaks out, and the very pillars of the NBA framework come tumbling down. Our own NBA counterpunch SwampDragon 2 gives us his thoughts on the "Donnybrook in Detroit", in the already-bizarre Season of Ron Artest...Read on... 2004 - 2005 NBA Preview - November 9, 2004 Joe's Expert Panel Predicts The Future III OK, so maybe expert is pushing the issue this year, but in any case, due to contractural obligations and the high price of talent these days, Joe Netsfan is forced to revise his expert panel for the latest and greatest celeb prognostications. In addition to our lone holdover, The Star Ledger's Crack Reporter Steve Politi, we're joined this year by two eager-to-crack wise guys, none other than SwampDragon2 and Joe his own self. Joe's probably jumped the shark at this point, but our panel is interesting in any case...Read on... Eastern Conference - November 3, 2004 2004 - 2005 Atlantic Division Preview Joe's woefully behind on his work, but here is the 2004 - 2005 Atlantic Division Preview. Who will win this wide-open, mediocre division? Joe's got his analysis...Read on... Enter The Dragon #2 - November 1, 2004 Dragon Tales - An NBA Preview It ain't PBS, but the Dragon is back with a magical, alphabetical tour of that beast we call the NBA in his annual preview. From Kobe to Kidd, from Ratner to 'Zo, it's all inside. Read on... Suggestion Box - September 7, 2004 Name Game 2004 Updated! We're off to a solid start, but we need more! Joe figured that with at least six new players expected on the 2004 - 2005 roster, it's not too early to start on our annual quest to find the best nicknames for each and every Net (and hey, why not throw in some for Bruce Ratner as well?). With newbies like Eric Williams, Jacque Vaughn, Rodney Buford, Ron Mercer, Nenad Krstic and Kyle Davis, you've got your work cut out for you. Email Joe with all your new nicknames and we'll post them as we go. Go to the Name Game 2004 page. Keep 'em coming! Enter The Dragon #1 - August 20, 2004 Dragon Dishes And Scores What is it about New Jersey and politics these days? Our friend SwampDragon2 awakes from his summer slumber with some muckraking to envy Woodward and Bernstein. Want to know what went on behind the scenes of the off-season from hell? The Dragon wants to take you there... Archive \| Backlash \| Bio \| Calendar \| Champagne's Blog \| Diatribe \| Game x Game \| History \| Home \| Joe Netsfan's Blog \| Media \| Opponents \| Players \| Playoffs \| Search \| Specials © 2003, 2004 Shawn Belschwender and Michael Kozlowski