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I'm happy to hear that, obviously. Since he's come back from surgery, he seems to be happy. No. 1, his leg is better and there seems to be no trepidation. And I think he was very happy when we traded for Vince Carter, as he said, a big time player.

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I think we have proven that we can beat anybody on any given night. Now, can we do it four out of seven times

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We've started looking at other options because players that we may have an interest in are either signing every day or they are about to sign.

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There was a transition period going on at the time. The new ownership was in place, but parts of it were changing at the exact time Kenyon had to be dealt with.

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With players, everybody wants to play, ... Everybody would like to get playing time. You've got to be able to do what you need to do in order to play. Obviously, from the coach's standpoint, he's going to play guys he thinks are going to help him win the game.

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He was a big piece to our puzzle and a quality player. So if it works out that we don't complete the trade, then we've lost a quality player.

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Our first 20 games, we didn't play very well. We weren't playing very well defensively at all, and offensively, it seemed to me that ... Vince was kind of waiting on Richard, and Richard was kind of waiting on Vince. The mesh wasn't as good as we anticipated.

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You have two guys who, when you put them on the low post, both demand a double team and they pass the ball, which means you can get good open shots with no one contesting. And when they don't do that, both of them draw a lot of fouls. We should be able to get to the foul line a lot.

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Don't have any plans to trade him. I'd never say we wouldn't trade anybody but I don't have any plans to trade him. We have indicated (to other teams) that we probably are not going to trade him.

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It was a shock. We had scheduled a press conference. We did not think there was going to be anything wrong whatsoever.

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It was a shock. We had scheduled a press conference. Obviously, we did not think there was going to be anything wrong whatsoever.

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We will get what we have to get. We're not going to trade those three guys.

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He's a good athlete who has had some moments in the league. We're hopeful he can give us some help on our bench.

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You have to have somebody to deal with, and it took a long time to make a deal with Portland. In this case, the time frame would be much shorter.

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It's going to take some time.

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Obviously we weren't aware of it, and after all the conversations back and forth, I don't think the player was aware there was any problem. He hadn't missed any games regarding this. To my knowledge, Portland wasn't aware of it.

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He had a knee operation when he was in high school. He's never missed a game with the knee problem in the N.B.A. never missed a practice or game. The only thing he's ever missed any games for in the N.B.A. was for an elbow operation.

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We hope he'll be back later this week, and hope that things go well. I know this he's pretty excited.

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We had a lot of question marks at this time last year. When Kenyon left, that really hurt, and there was a question as to what was going to transpire with Jason.

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Kidd can defend the best wing player at the end of the game, make the big pass, get the big rebound. That takes the pressure off the players.

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We are pleased to bring Cliff back. He is a seasoned player who defends well in the low post and can also step outside to make a three-point shot.

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Lawrence has a track record here. Nobody works harder. He has terrific game plans. We just need to execute our plans better and play better. Lawrence can't go out and play for guys.

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It was a confidential conversation, and I don't really want to comment on it.

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Something came up that nobody had any idea about. There is a time frame in which this will play out in the next couple of days. Shareef is a pro. He's a good guy. He's going to continue his career no matter what. Hopefully he'll have a long career. He's under contract (to the Nets). Hopefully that's the way it will stay, and he will play long time for us.

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Carter was placed on the injured list by the Raptors after injuring his heel Dec. 9 in a loss at Detroit. He was eligible to return for New Jersey's contest Tuesday at Charlotte, but Thorn said the Nets don't want to take any chances. New Jersey also plays at home Wednesday against Cleveland, and then has four days off before resuming the season Dec. 27 at Detroit. He sat out his five games but there is still a little inflammation, ... We only have the two games this week, and then we're off for awhile so it makes sense to give him some rest now. We want to make sure it's not chronic.

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