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• Sloan: If Nets call, I'd listen

  Deron Williams-Jerry Sloan reunion?Could be if both sides wind up really wanting each other.Sloan, who retired in 2011, said Monday that he'd like to return to coaching and wouldn't be opposed to taking GM Billy King's phone call and possibly reuniting with   Read more »

• Joakim Noah, Marco Belinelli, Bulls eliminate Nets in Game 7

  at Barclays Center.Every time the Nets made a charge, the Bulls answered it, particularly in the fourth quarter. Deron Williams nailed a pull-up three-pointer with 6:09 left in the fourth to make it 86-81, leading a fuming Bulls coach Tom Thibodeau to call   Read more »

• Andray Blatche's role increasing in Nets' series against Bulls

  especially offensively. There's less [defensive] help," Lopez said. "Deron and Joe can attest to that, as well."What Deron Williams , Joe Johnson and everyone on the Nets attest is that Blatche has been better than the player whose 2011-12 season was so out   Read more »

• Deron Williams takes Celtics apart as Nets win, 101-93

  -- The man roaming the opposing sideline who once played point guard in the NBA knows Deron Williams' game has been somewhere out of this stratosphere of late.Still, that didn't keep him from some wishing upon a star, basically daydreaming that the Nets' floor   Read more »

• Nets understand the playoffs are a whole new ballgame

  N.J. -- Is this a Brooklyn approach to the NBA playoffs or what? Nets coach P.J. Carlesimo and his marquee player, Deron Williams , on Monday made the point that this a perfect time for short memories, a mentality of "forget about it" (spelled differently   Read more »

Around the web

• Mike & Mike on ESPN Radio: Coming Up Rose

  Kidd dishes on the thrill of being hired as an NBA head coach, what his approach will be on the bench and his relationship with Deron Williams. Kidd also responds to criticisms that he hasn't done enough to deserve a head coaching position. Brian Windhorst,   from ESPN Read more »

• Kidd invites Frank to be on Nets' staff

  dishes on the thrill of being hired as an NBA head coach, what his approach will be on the bench and his relationship with Deron Williams. Kidd also responds to criticisms that he hasn't done enough to deserve a head coaching position. More Podcasts » "The   from ESPN Read more »

• Brooklyn Nets coach Jason Kidd needs to click with guard

  Nets coach Jason Kidd poses with guard Deron Williams as Kidd was introduced as the new coach.(Photo: Brad Penner, USA TODAY Sports) Williams will have to be Kidd's coach of the floorWilliams was there to show his support for the new coachKidd and Williams   from USA Today Read more »

• First Cup: Thursday

  because so much of Kidd’s success, immediate and long-term, will revolve around one thing: the relationship with Deron Williams that officially, today, takes a turn for the serious, a turn for the somewhat surreal, and a turn, one way or another, for both   from ESPN Read more »

• Deron: Kidd hire can only assist Nets

  Williams understands Jason Kidd’s hiring is a risk. But for the Nets’ star point guard, it is a worthwhile gamble on a basketball-playing genius — and somebody who Williams believes can maximize a point guard’s potential. “Nobody knows if he’s going to be   from New York Daily News Read more »