Damion James News

Busy, busy, busy. During the next two to three weeks, the Nets will learn how many picks they will have and where they fall; dispatch front office staff to Minneapolis; Chicago; Treviso, Italy: and New York's Chelsea Pier to look at prospects; begin working out players they like at the PNY Center and hear what Gerald Wallace plans to do.

Dwight Howard wants out of Orlando despite the recent firings of head coach Stan Van Gundy and General Manager Otis Smith.

As we have written about before, the Brooklyn Nets have three players whose contracts are guaranteed for next season: Anthony Morrow, Johan Petro, and MarShon Brooks.

As the Brooklyn Nets begin to sell merchandise, they only have four players whose destiny they control: Anthony Morrow, Johan Petro, MarShon Brooks, and Damion James.

With the euphoria over the team's new identity subsiding, the Nets upcoming calendar will be filed, alternately, with marketing and basketball.

With the Nets in the midst of the off-season, there has been a lot of talk about cap space and who we can or can't sign.

One thing is certain, the artist formerly known as the New Jersey Nets is headed to its new home in Brooklyn, the brand new Barclays Center, sporting a new attitude along with a fresh new look.