The Baseline Sees All: New Jersey Nets

Elsewhere in our web of basketball knowledge, you'll find comprehensive team previews by experts intimately acquainted with what makes these NBA teams tick, where they've been, and what might be next for them. So why another set of previews? Because sometimes, it's worth listening to your crazy uncle about that broken leg before you take a second trip to the doctor's office. We've all learned to spell Prokhorov, which in itself says a lot; I still can't get the name of a certain spiky-haired Warrior big man right, and he's a double-double machine. And there's every reason to believe that this sale, coupled with a Brooklyn move that will come true, makes the Nets a major force in the saga of 2010. But what about next year? With Vince Carter no more, Devin Harris the main course, and a roster that looks like a lottery team headed in the wrong direction, the Nets need to give us reasons to not just talk about them in the future tense. Most Likely Bre...