Listen to some of you guys and every move is great as long as it is not made by the Knicks lol. (BRIGGS mostly :))

I think this is great for us. Maybe we can win the division and get a 2nd spot while having a worse record then some teams below us and have lasting homecourt. I mean I think it is safe to say that whatever the future consequences of that trade, next year, the Nets are prolly going to be worse then us w/out Martin. He was the guy that killed us in the playoffs, not RJ or Kidd. Martin was the difference between us and them. An athletic beast of a big man that we don't have. Now they don't have one either. And Rahim does not exatcly scare me nearly as much as Martin did. Rahim is just a nice player, he will not kill us like Martin did. That's provided they even get him. He is a max deal as far as I know, and if you are cuttin money, why not match one max deal, and then trade for another? Especially for one year if you are moving and could care less about your NJ fan base at this point anyways.

2 of the 3 picks are not the Nuggets' own picks, but are picks they acquired from the Wizards and Clippers. Both are lottery protected next year as well

What- did Layden resurface to help the nets out with this deal?

And we gave Phoenix 2 1st rounders (one unprotected) and took on Hardaways max deal, sent them Lampe and some other stuff to get Marbury?

I guess its called leverage!

Perhaps IT can work some on Chicago!

the nets didn't have a lot of choice. THe easy would have been to max martin. but is he a max player ? I don't think so. HE's got heart, incredible athletism, but what else ? KG is a max player. Duncan is a max player and they deserve every buck they earn.

We'll see what martin is without kidd. Remember, kidd is so good that he could make a cadaver play in the nba.

And soon he'll find out that playing against tim duncan, garnett, webber... every night is far from what he's accustomed to in the eastern conf (espc atl division)

[Edited by - raven on 07/16/2004 05:35:32]