"My dad watched every game. It was tough, man. I watched The Jeffersons." - Jayson Williams, when asked whether or not he watched the Nets this season, Newark Star Ledger, April 26, 2001

"...as of April 18 I will not talk about curses nor will I answer any questions about curses until April 18, 2002." - Coach Byron Scott to Don Burke, April 17, 2001

"We never had that, so I've never had to deal with anything like that. I was finally sitting at my desk in my office the other day and I said, 'Man, this is bizarre.' I said I've never witnessed something like this. I almost started laughing. I said, 'This is crazy.'" - Coach Byron Scott, December 11, 2000, on the Nets misfortunes this year

"You can't sleep at night. You wake up in the middle of the night and can't go back to sleep. You don't feel up to doing anything when you're losing. You can't go out. You might want to go out to get something to eat, but then you change your mind and say, well, I'm just going to cook me something at home. You don't want to go out. You basically hide." - Lucious Harris, December 11, 2000

"My hardest problem is just letting it go. I can't even talk to my girlfriend on the phone. I'm in a bad mood. It affects all my relationships. My parents. I don't sleep at night. It just gets me." - Evan Eschmeyer, December 11, 2000

"You know the world has gone to hell when the best rapper out there is a white guy and the best golfer is a black guy."
- Charles Barkley

"He killed us. If I weren't coaching the losing team it would be kind of refreshing to watch this game because he is a guy who knows how to play and run a team. It just shows that if you still know how to play you can play in this league because some guys don't (know how to play)." - Suns coach Scott Skiles on Sherman Douglas,December 10, 2000

"Judging Vancouver's appetite for basketball after the Grizzlies is like judging Britain's appetite for beef after mad cow disease." - Ed Willes of The Province, a Canadian newspaper

"What y'all got in the air around here, man?" - Doug Overton, icing a dislocated left index finger on the first day of a 10-day contract, on the night Kenyon Martin breaks his leg (again), March 22, 2001

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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.