"Shame! Shame! Shame!"
- distraught caller to Nets/Celtics radio postgame show, December 28, 2000

"I threw it behind [Williams]. [Palacio] made a shot. I screwed up." - a teary-eyed Lucious Harris on making the bad inbounds pass that led to the miracle 3 point shot by Boston's Milt Palacio that won the game, December 28, 2000

"It was my fault. I thought I saw him open. He went that way. I threw it this way. They made a lucky shot. ... Did my heart sink? Shoot, I've got to find my heart. I've shed a lot of tears. We needed this game and to lose it that way is hard to take. This was my worst moment in the league." - Harris again, December 28, 2000

"The last thing we said was, 'Throw the ball that way' (meaning away from the Celtics' basket). Don't throw it to halfcourt." - Coach Byron Scott, on his instructions to his team just before the Celts beat the Nets with the miracle shot, December 28, 2000

"I didn't even see it go in." - Celtics guard Milt Palacio, on his game winning shot, December 28, 2000

"I just kept seeing that shot go in." - Coach Byron Scott, the day after the Nets' unbelievable loss to the Celtics, December 29, 2000

"Nothing has changed. I screwed up." - Lucious Harris, through a Nets spokesman, on the day after his game-losing pass, December 29, 2000

"Forget the Pyramids at sunset along the Nile. Or indisputable photos of Big Foot. Aliens living among us don't compare. We have now seen it all after last night in the Meadowlands.
Even by the standards of the Nets who have lost games in every fashion imaginable, by every consequence conceivable, this one set a new gauge for the absurd." - Fred Kerber, on the Nets improbable loss to the Celtics, December 29, 2000

"Five of you guys could beat them." - George Steinbrenner, "guys" meaning sports reporters, "them" meaning the Nets, February 17, 2001

"The best thing [Michael Jordan] could do for the N.B.A.'s long-range recovery would be to get his 38-year-old rump roasted a few times by Allen Iverson and Kobe Bryant. Maybe then, people would stop living in the past and blaming developing players and their tattoos and cornrows for everything wrong with basketball, as opposed to the league's bull-market mentality of chasing every expansion dollar and gouging every ticket-buying fan." - Harvey Araton, NY Times, March 25, 2001

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Joe's Links
Where Joe goes:

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 Jersey papers. Where Joe and Champagne go to read Don Burke of the Newark Star Ledger, their favorite beat writer.

NYPost Sports Section
Freddy Kerber is a close second to Burke for our favorite beat reporter, and you have to read Peter Vecsey Tuesdays, Fridays and Sundays. Nobody is more "inside" than Vecsey.

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

NY Daily News Basketball page
Michael James, Nets beat

NY Times Basketball page
Liz Robbins, Nets beat

Sporting News NBA Section
We like Dave D'Alessandro, who also writes for the Newark Star Ledger.