The Nets of the New Jersey ( New Jersey Nets in English) are a frankness from Basket-ball of NBA. The team is based with East Rutherford, New Jersey.

History of the frankness

ABA

The creation of the frankness in 1967 results from the desire from ABA to be established in the media center of the country, and to thus acquire legitimacy. Incompetent to find a gymnasium, the frankness is established after a fashion in the New Jersey, in Teaneck, and becomes the New Jersey Americans . In one correct season spite (36 victories for 42 defeats), the multitude is ridiculous, the frankness seldom joins together 1  000 fans in its platforms. The frankness is with equality with Kentucky Colonels for the last qualificative place of the play-offs. A match is then planned to decide between the two teams. Unfortunately, the room of Teaneck is already reserved for another event. The owner, Arthur Brown, find finally a stage with Long Island. But when the teams present themselves for the match, the ground proves to be impracticable: the parquet floor is badly installed, of the nuts are not screwed. The Colonels refuse to play the match. George Mikan, commission agent of the ABA, slices and declares the match fixed price.

The frankness moves the following season with Long Island, in the same gymnasium where the team made fixed price, and becomes the New York Nets , name chosen according to the two other professional teams of the city: the Mets (Baseball) and the Jets (NFL). During the draft, the frankness with the possibility of recruiting the phenomenon resulting from the university of UCLA, Lew Alcindor. But the Milwaukee Bucks, the team of the concurrent league, NBA are also on the blow. Alcindor affirms that it will go to highest offerer, and it signs finally in Bucks, which made an best offer that the Nets. The results of the frankness are disappointing, 23 players carry the shirt of the team in the season through ten transfers. The team gains with final only the 17 victories and finds last league. At the end of the season, Arthur Brown resells the team with Roy Boe. The team moves again, in a new town of Island Length closer to Manhattan: Hempstead. The choice proves to be judicious, the new site triples the audience of the frankness. The Nets sign Bill Melchionni, of the Philadelphia Sixers. It finishes the season better frontier runner of the league, while Levern Tart leads the team to the points. The team is again competitive and gains 39 matches, gaining for the first time a place in play-offs.

With the intersaison the Nets record the arrival of Rick Barry. The superstar makes the team competitive. Although missing 25 matches lasting the season following a wound with the knee, Barry is the second best marker of the league. Bill Melchionni is as for him the best frontier runner of the ABA. The rookie Billy Paultz makes one correct season with 11 rebounds of average and 52% of success to the shootings. With an assessment of 40 victories for 44 defeats, the team faces in playoffs Virginia Squires and are eliminated after 6 disputed sleeves.

The team still improves in 1971-72, records 44 victories in regular season, and spawning time a way until in finales ABA vis-a-vis the Indiana Pacers. Pacers gain finally the title in six handles.

The following season, Barry receives an order of justice to turn over in NBA. Without her star, the team crumbles and is beaten with the first turn of the play-offs. But the intersaison is favorable to the frankness which recovers largest star of the league, Julius Erving. The five major one is very young person, oldest, Billy Paultz, being 25 years old. The new trainer, Kevin Loughery, lead the team to an assessment of 55 victories, under the aegis of Erving, better marker and MVP of the league. The Nets are trotted in play-offs and gain the title in 5 handles. This success makes the Nets even more popular than the New York Knicks of the NBA.

The only change with the intersaison 1975 is the arrival of old the star of Knicks, Dave DeBusschere, as a general manager . The season is same level as the preceding one, but with the general surprise the Nets are beaten with the first turn by St Louis Spirits, a team which has an assessment of 32 victories for 52 defeats during the regular season. Many players are then exchanged to rebuild the frankness around Erving. DeBusschere leaves the Nets to become commission agent of the league. The transfers prove to be paying and the team finds the finales vis-a-vis the Denver Nuggets. Erving, inarrêtable, offer a second title to New York. The Nets become the last frankness champion in ABA, following fusion with the NBA during the summer. The entry in NBA costs 8 million dollars the Nets: 3 million is versed to the NBA, and 5 million in Knicks, like compensation to make it possible the Nets to be competitor in the same city.

NBA

1976 to 1980 - Beginnings in NBA and return to New Jersey

The New Jersey Nets enter in NBA like serious applicants, position reinforced by the signature of Nate Archibald. But an argument about the wages bursts between Julius Erving and the owner Roy Boe, this last finally selling Erving with the Sixers for 3 million dollars. All the hopes of the Nets fly away in January, when Archibald fractures the foot. The team records the worst assessment and is the worst attack of the NBA. During the intersaison, Boe moves the frankness in the New Jersey. Sportivement the team changes little and is always worst of the league. Nevertheless, the rookie Bernard King, with 24 points of average, is a satisfaction.

In 1978 Boe sells finally the frankness. With the offensive duet Bernard King/John Williamson and in defense George Johnson (second with counter in the league) and Edward Jordan (second better interceptor of the league); the frankness garners 13 additional victories compared to the former season, and is qualified for the first time in play-offs since its arrival in NBA. Although eliminated with the first turn, the Nets are pleased to have finished in front of their rivals New Yorkais.

The selection with the draft 1979 of Calvin Natt pushes the Nets to transfer Bernard King to the Utah Jazz. But Natt, however author of a good mid-season, is transferred in February against Maurice Lucas to Portland. The team completes the season with 34 victories, and the various transfers after a fashion seem to have avoided the shipwreck.

The years 1980

The last of the league the following year, Larry Brown arrives at the head of the frankness for the season 1981-82. Brown gained with three recoveries the title of better trainer of the year in ABA. It renovates basic in roof the frankness. Buck Williams is named rookie year. The changes are spectacular: the frankness, with 44 victories, records 20 victories moreover than the former season. But certainly for lack of experiment, they are swept by Washington with the first turn of the play-offs.

The following year, with the arrivals of Micheal Ray Richardson and Darryl Dawkins (which beats all the records in terms of made faults and expulsions), the team establishes the record of her history with 49 victories. But at two weeks of the end of the regular season, Larry Brown resigns and leaves to involve the university of Kansas. The team crumbles vis-a-vis Knicks with the first turn of the play-offs.

The frankness is renewed with a similar manpower and a new trainer, Stan Albeck. Darryl Dawkins carries out a beautiful season, although always handicapped by the faults, just like Buck Williams and Otis Birdsong (which takes part in the All-Star Range). Micheal Ray Richardson misses half of the season, confronted with problems of drug. After having beaten the champions in title, the Philadelphia Sixers, with the first turn, the frankness is beaten with the second turn by the Milwaukee Bucks.

In 1984-85, the many wounds waste the season of the club which is eliminated with the first turn of the play-offs. The following year is relatively similar, Micheal Ray Richardson establishes a first in the league while being banished for use of drug, after being controlled positive third once. The wounds are always at the origin of the problems of the club in 1986-87: Darryl Dawkins must put in the long term at its career in high season, Otis Birdsong is out after only 7 matches. The Nets finish with equality with Knicks for the last place of division. The black series continue in 1987-88, and reach even Buck Williams which misses the first matches of its career in six years.

The following season, with three trainers following one another during the season (whose Willis Reed), the team finishes penultimate league with 19 victories. The following year, 1988-89, the team gains only 26 matches and leaves the last place of division only to the Charlotte Hornets, which have the excuse to be in their first year of their existence!

The years 1990

The Nets transfer during the intersaison Buck Williams to Portland against Sam Bowie, a pivot having suffered from many wounds, and it twelfth choice of the draft with which they select Mookie Blaylock. Blaylock carries out one honest season but lack 32 matches on wound. The season is a fiasco, with only 17 victories, the Nets carry out a worse assessment than the expansion teams Orlando and Minnesota. This result offers nevertheless the first choice of the draft 1990 with which they choose Derrick Coleman. Drazen Petrovic and Reggie Theus comes to reinforce manpower.

Coleman gains the title of rookie of the year 1991. The Nets are a little better with 26 victories, and glanent a new high choice of draft. They select this time a leader, Kenny Anderson. Because of an argument on the negotiation of the wages, Anderson joined the team only in the course of season. After 17 defeats in 25 matches, the team seizes again itself, and qualifies itself for the play-offs with a final assessment of 39 victories. They have gained even a match of play-offs vis-a-vis the Cavaliers, the first for eight years (1984). The team is young person and tempting, with Petrovic which leads the team to the points. But the trainer, Bill Fitch, are criticized to establish Mookie Blaylock in front of Kenny Anderson. It is replaced by Chuck Daly, which quickly transfers Mookie Blaylock to Atlanta. Daly makes the team victorious, but the wound of Anderson in February reduces the assessment to 43 victories. Arrived in play-offs without their interiors (also wounded), the Nets are impotent vis-a-vis Cavs, in spite of the excellent performance of Coleman (27 points and 13 rebounds of average). One month after the end of the play-offs, Petrovic dies in an car accident in Germany. The team loses in a tragic way sound better marker.

But the season 1993-94, finishes with 45 victories, the second best assessment of the frankness in NBA. The Nets are eliminated by their neighbors new yorkais, on the way for finales NBA. Chuck Daly gives up at the end of the season its role of trainer with Butch Beard.

The team crumbles because of the wounds and the disciplinary problems. Beard can make better only 30 victories for the season 1994-95. The year 1995-96 is one year of transition, where Derrick Coleman and Kenny Anderson, two players with the difficult characters, are transferred. Exasperated, the Nets obtain only Kendall Gill as substantial player in exchange of their two stars. But the departure of the duet makes it possible second knives to burst, like Armon Gilliam, Chris Childs and Jayson Williams, which is affirmed like one of the best rebondeurs of the league, with 10 rebounds per match. With the giant Shawn Bradley (2m28), the Nets lead the league to the rebounds. But the absence of talent is fatal with the team which gains only 30 matches. The trainer Butch Beard is replaced by John Calipari with the intersaison.

The contribution of Calipari is not felt in the results of the frankness. In spite of the satisfying contribution of the rookie Kerry Kittles, and of the explosion of Jayson Williams and Kendall Gill, the Nets repot only 26 victories. The semi-season is marked by one of the largest transfers of the history of the NBA in terms of many players included, 9 players on the whole belong to the transfer with the Dallas Mavericks. The Nets recover Sam Cassell in this exchange.

The following year, under the impulse of Jayson Williams which is selected with the All-Star Range, the Nets have taken part in the play-offs for the first time for 4 years, to be eliminated with the first turn against the Chicago bulldozers.

The season 1998-99 starts on a catastrophic assessment of 3 victories in 20 matches. Calipari is replaced by Don Casey and in March, the leader Sam Cassell, is exchanged in a transfer implying 3 teams against Stephon Marbury, the enfant terrible of New York. The remainder of the season, a little better, does not make it possible the Nets to reach the play-offs in one season shortened by the strike of the players.

In 1999-2000, a new catastrophic departure (2 victories in 17 matches, worse starting of the history of the frankness), deprives the Nets of playoffs with 31 victories at the end of the season. Nevertheless, a surprise awaits the Nets with the intersaison: the club gains the first choice of draft to the lottery, whereas it had statistically only 4,4% to obtain it. This choice is used to select Kenyon Martin.

Byron Scott takes the orders of the frankness the following season, but the wounds of player-keys prevent the Nets from playing their right value. Kenyon Martin is nevertheless a very satisfactory contribution, while Stephon Marbury records its first selection with the All-Star Range. The season finishes on 26 victories.

Since 2000

During the summer 2000-2001, Stephon Marbury is exchanged with the Suns Phoenixes against Jason Kidd. This exchange radically will change the face of the frankness. Collective player, it emphasizes his fellow-members who shine. The team gains 52 matches, and is the best team of a Conference is very weakened compared to the Western Conference. The Nets cut through a path until in finales to face the Los Angeles Lakers. The power struggle is too obvious, and the Nets, as if they were already satisfied to have reached this level, are beaten in 4 handles by the team of Shaquille O'Neal.

The team reaches the finales again the following year, to face the San Antonio Spurs. They lose this time in 6 handles.

In 2003-04, the Nets make a bet risked by signing Alonzo Mourning, whose health is staggering because of a problem of kidney. After 12 matches, Mourning is seen obliged to stop to undergo a transplantation. In the current of the season, an argument between Jason Kidd and Byron Scott push this last to be resigned. It is replaced by its assistant, Lawrence Frank, which gains the first 13 matches of its career of trainer. The season is completed with 47 victories for 35 defeats and the title of Division. After having beaten Knicks with the first turn, the Nets are beaten at the end of the seventh handle against the future champions in title, the Detroit Pistons.

In 2004, the frankness is sold in Bruce Ratner, which announces its will to move the Nets with Brooklyn. It immediately shows its will to reduce the expenditure by transferring Kenyon Martin and Kerry Kittles against seconds turns from draft. And sign n the other hand equips it with the players of second zone, causing a collapse on the sporting level. Jason Kidd announces its dissatisfaction and implies that he wants to leave. After a poor departure in the season, the frankness makes an incoherent reversal by transferring Alonzo Mourning, Eric Williams, Aaron Williams and two seconds turns of draft against Vince Carter and its contract of more than 50 million dollars. But if the team presents a trio of backs (Kidd-Jefferson-Casing) tempting, it is completely depopulated in the interior sector in spite of the good season of the Serb rookie Nenad Krstic at the station of pivot. The presence of Casing in the rows makes it possible nevertheless the team in extremis to be qualified for the play-offs at the time of the last day of the regular season, with 42 victories for 40 defeats. The Nets are eliminated in four handles at the time of the first turn by the Miami Heat.

During the intersaison, the Nets recruit the free agent Jeff McInnis for densifier the bench in company of Lamond Murray and Scott Padgett. About to make sign Shareef Abdur-Rahim, the winger AlStar of Portland cement, the Nets finally decide to give up the transfer to fold back itself on Marc Jackson of Philadelphia. This last is exchanged in February 2006 against Bostjan Nachbar coming from the Hornets.

After one average November, New Jersey gains 10 matches for 4 defeats in December in the wake of a Casing at the top of its Article Auteur one disappointing January old, the frankness gave front walk to the approach of the play-offs with a series of 14 consecutive victories compiled between March and April (new record of the frankness and record from the year in NBA). The final assessment of 49 victories for 33 defeats offers to the Nets the title of Atlantique division and the right to face the Indiana Pacers with the first turn of the play-offs. The series is difficult against the frankness from Indiana but the team of Vince Carter carries it finally 4 victories with 2. The following turn is announced much more difficult and, indeed, Heat of Miami eliminates the Nets curtly 4-1.

The season 2006-2007, badly started finishes on an high note, much thought that the frankness would easily gain the championship in Atlantic division, of seeing in the Conference Is. The Nets finished the season on an assessment average of 41 victories for 41 defeats and left the championship of division in surprising Toronto Raptors. The losses on wound, at the beginning of season of Nenad Kristic and the absence of Richard Jefferson for two months contributed to this mitigated assessment. However the return at the beginning of March of Richard Jefferson makes it possible the Nets to gain 10 their the last 13 matches and to qualify itself for the playoffs in extremis while finishing in the 6th place of the Conference Is. In play-offs the Nets meet the Toronto Raptors with the first turn and take their revenge over the season by gaining the series 4 victories with 2. In semi-final of conference the fellow-members of Vince Carter are opposed to future finalists NBA, the Cleveland Cavaliers of Lebron James which gain the series in 6 matches.

With the intersaison, the Nets recruit the rookie Sean Williams with their 17th choice of draft, the team lose Mikki Moore which carried out the best season of its career as a substitute of Kristic with best rate of success with the shots, 0,609, of season NBA. To compensate for this departure and to be reinforced Jamal Magloire inside, All-Star in 2003-2004 is recruited.

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External bonds

  • Official site
  • Statistical detailed on basketball-reference.com
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