Jason Kidd News

Call it what you will. Dumb versus dumber. Helpless versus hopeless. No matter your moniker, it's hard to recall a time when both local teams were this horrific.

Many hoped the mission this season was to lose as many games and get the highest draft pick as possible.

Go all-in on the New York Knicks ? Are the Knicks' good stats a buy and their bad stats a sell? But things look more promising than you think.

Prior to the start of the season, the mere thought of a Knicks-Nets matchup was enough to make even the casual basketball fan excited.

For most of the past five months, so much time, energy and space went to promoting what NBA team ran New York, Manhattan's Knicks or Brooklyn's Nets.

And when the smoke cleared, we went 3-1 for the day and now have improved to 21-10 win-loss betting record.

The Knicks' train wreck of a season is so tangled that it can't be explained by any one factor.

New York, NY - There are plenty of factors that go into the Nets' 5-13 start, but you have to begin with the rash of injuries they've had to deal with, which includes losing their two best players, Deron Williams and Brook Lopez for extended periods of time.

It seems like just a few weeks ago New York Knicks and Brooklyn Nets players were exchanging barbs in the press over which team owned New York.

Another great week in the NBA has been wrapped up and once again there are many important headlines to cover this week here at Buckets Over Broadway in my NBA Weekly Notebook.

On Tuesday, a day after it was announced that All-Star swingman Paul Pierce would miss up to a month with a broken bone in his right hand, Nets coach Jason Kidd said that assistant coach Lawrence Frank was being reassigned-though not fired-because of "philosophical differences."

't sugarcoat his answer when asked about the upcoming matchup with the rival New York Knicks , which will be televised Thursday at 7 p.m. ET on TNT.

Jeff Van Gundy mends some fences at the Garden, but he wouldn't even speak about the Knicks coaching job back when Mike D'Antoni has the gig.

Firestorms of objection have fallen upon the Brooklyn Nets . The league's newest powerhouse has gone from appointed contender to embarrassing lemon.

On the day Jason Kidd fired Lawrence Frank because of their "philosophical differences," among other things, the Nets were pounded at home by the Nuggets, 111-87, in a game that started to get embarrassing in the third quarter.

Knicks star Carmelo Anthony can have New York. The Nuggets will settle for being better.

Coming off another home loss to the New Orleans Pelicans last night, the New York Knicks are now currently riding a nine game losing streak.

When TNT scheduled Thursday's showdown between the Knicks and the Nets, the first of this year's edition of, "The Battle of New York," there was much anticipation.

East Rutherford, NJ, United States - Brooklyn Nets swingman Paul Pierce will miss two to four weeks after suffering a broken bone in his right hand.

It's important to note before you read the rest of this that I'm not blaming Carmelo Anthony for the mess the Knicks are in.