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» Friday, May 24 2013

Stackhouse knew that the Dallas crowd cheered just as loudly when he came off the bench as it would have if he were starting. Both Nelson and Avery Johnson had no problem drawing plays for him and letting him loose. That first Dallas season also featured the defining Jerry Stackhouse, Tough Guy story. It happened after Utah rookie Kirk Snyder took a cheap shot at him under the basket during a game. Stackhouse retaliated with one of his own. Both men thought they were even. Nope. They bumped into each other a few plays later and … well, Stackhouse can explain the rest. "Boom, he punched me in the stomach with an open fist," Stackhouse said, incredulously. "I was like, 'OK, I can go crazy right now and get suspended for two or three games and lose this money.' The smart side of me said, 'No, I'm not going to do that. But I'm going to get this boy.' You don't put your hands on me. I can deal with a lot of verbal stuff and wolfing and all that, but you put your hands on me, no. And I thought I had cleaned it up, but obviously I hadn't." Grantland

Brooklyn Nets, Jerry Stackhouse 

When the game ended, Stackhouse recalls asking the training staff for a warm-up suit, then waiting on the docks where Utah's bus would depart. "I ain't even shower," Stackhouse recalls. "I put on some sweats, some sneakers, and I went and stood in the tunnel. As soon as [Snyder] came out, I fired on him. I got in a couple. That was it. I don't know where all these security people came from. It probably lasted 20 seconds. Everybody pulled me off and that was it." Grantland

Brooklyn Nets, Jerry Stackhouse 

And that's how an NBA urban legend is born. Only, in this case, it actually happened: the time Jerry Stackhouse saved a few bucks by beating up Kirk Snyder after a Mavs-Jazz game. They ran into each other again the following year, after Snyder had been traded to New Orleans. Again, he approached Stackhouse in the tunnel. "He started walking to me," Stackhouse remembers. "I closed my fists, wondering what's this fool up to, thinking we're about to go in. He just came in and opened his hand out to me and said, 'Man, I really needed that.'" Snyder told Stackhouse that he had been struggling to get onto the court and wanted to impress his coach, Jerry Sloan. "I was just like, 'Damn, next time just get my number. You want to talk to somebody, we can do that without me having to pay a $1,000 fine. But it was the weirdest thing I had ever witnessed. You get into some knuckles with someone and they come back and tell you, 'I needed that.'" Grantland

Brooklyn Nets, Jerry Stackhouse 

Shaw might have other, better opportunities, as he is also a candidate for the head-coaching positions with the Brooklyn Nets and possibly the Los Angeles Clippers. When Jackson thought the Sacramento Kings would move to Seattle, where he would run the club's front office, sources said his plan included hiring Shaw as head coach. ESPN.com

Los Angeles Clippers, Brooklyn Nets, Sacramento Kings, Coaching, Brian Shaw 

Lionel Hollins, who is coaching the Memphis Grizzlies in the Western Conference finals, also is on the Nets' list. Hollins' contract expires after this season, and while the Grizzlies have a great chance to retain him, they are not likely to win a bidding war with Brooklyn's deep-pocketed owner, Mikhail Prokhorov. ESPN.com

Memphis Grizzlies, Brooklyn Nets, Coaching, Mikhail Prokhorov, Lionel Hollins 

Looking at the hard-driving Thibodeau model, the Nets also have done background checks on Scott Skiles. But while he hasn't totally been taken off their radar, there is some fear that Skiles could clash with some of the veteran stars and have a short shelf life. ESPN.com

Brooklyn Nets, Coaching, Scott Skiles 
 

» Thursday, May 23 2013

Boston Celtics president of basketball operations Danny Ainge was contacted by the Brooklyn Nets, who wanted to speak to Doc Rivers about their vacant coaching position, team and league sources confirmed to ESPNBoston.com. Ainge, according to those sources, denied the Nets permission to talk with his coach, who has three years and $21 million remaining on his contract. ESPN.com

Boston Celtics, Brooklyn Nets, Doc Rivers, Danny Ainge, Coaching 

Both the Nets and the Clippers would jump at the chance to get Doc Rivers out of Boston, but in addition to publicly stating his desire to keep Rivers, Celtics president Danny Ainge has privately told teams that he will not grant clubs permission to speak to Rivers about their coaching vacancies. Ainge and Rivers are close enough that if Rivers wanted out of Boston, Ainge would probably relent, but there is no indication that Rivers wants a change of scenery. ESPN.com

Boston Celtics, Los Angeles Clippers, Brooklyn Nets, Doc Rivers, Danny Ainge, Coaching 

Lionel Hollins, who is coaching the Memphis Grizzlies in the Western Conference finals, also is on the Nets' list. Hollins' contract expires after this season, and while the Grizzlies have a great chance to retain him, they are not likely to win a bidding war with Brooklyn's deep-pocketed owner, Mikhail Prokhorov. ESPN.com

Memphis Grizzlies, Brooklyn Nets, Coaching, Lionel Hollins 

Shaw might have other, better opportunities, as he is also a candidate for the head-coaching positions with the Brooklyn Nets and possibly the Los Angeles Clippers. When Jackson thought the Sacramento Kings would move to Seattle, where he would run the club's front office, sources said his plan included hiring Shaw as head coach. ESPN.com

Los Angeles Clippers, Brooklyn Nets, Sacramento Kings, Phil Jackson, Coaching, Brian Shaw, Seattle 

Missouri's Phil Pressey still doesn't get it. He's one of the best passing guards in the draft, but much like his junior season at Missouri, he got away from that and instead kept jacking up bad jumpers. He made a few highlight-reel passes, but he mistakenly believes he's a scorer and it's killing his draft stock. Had he come in and just ran his team in New Jersey, he might have played himself into the first round. Instead, he might have played himself out of it. ESPN.com

Brooklyn Nets, Draft, Phil Pressey 

Jackson considers Carmelo Anthony “an amazing ballplayer who still has another level to step up.” But given a choice, he seemed to prefer Brooklyn’s roster to New York’s because of the age of the Knicks and the presence of the Nets’ Deron Williams and Brook Lopez. “The Knicks still have to find some accommodating group of guys that know how to play ball together, move the ball, play the game the right way,” he said. “With Brooklyn, if you’ve got a point guard and a solid center, or a good point guard and a great center, you’ve got two of the pieces that you want to have toward a champion.” New York Times

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