The first phone call Devin Harris made after learning he was selected an All-Star was to his parents.
You see, he's an All-American kid, who was truly excited about being named an All-Star for the first time. I haven't seen him smile and laugh like he did at this morning shootaround in a long time.
First, from my living room couch, I thought Devin Harris' shot was going to fall.
Harris made a great move to free himself - looked like what he did at Sacramento and throughout that trip that now seems like last season. It's looking more and more like the clock has struck midnight on the once-Cinderella Nets.
Of course, it would have been a better story if Vince Carter took and hit the shot, as he tends to do against the Raptors. Though, that's usually on the road. You can't question the play, especially with how open Harris was.
Devin Harris may have said it best after last night's game.
"I don't know if we came in thinking about going home or where our minds where but it definitely wasn't in the game," Harris said.
It certainly seemed that way from the Nets' performance. You don't like to say the Nets weren't trying, but they weren't giving the same effort as the Thunder to close out the four-game trip.
Vince Carter turned 32 Monday. In basketball years, that means he's almost ready for an AARP card.
"He started his career with the Raptors," Keyon Dooling said. "Now he's technically a dinosaur."
Devin Harris said he was going to get Carter a cane as a present. The jokes were coming from everywhere before the Nets closed out their four-game trip against the Thunder. But Carter is showing a lot of people the joke's on them.
Don't know what the weather is like back home, but some freezing rain in OKC has made the streets so icy that navigating, by foot, to the Ford Center was an adventure.
Hope they know how to de-ice planes and clear runways here because we need to get home tomorrow. It's only been three games to this point, but it seems much longer.
For the Nets, they have a chance to make it a successful trip with a win tonight against Nenad Krstic's Thunder.
Early indications are Devin Harris and Keyon Dooling will play tonight.
Technically, both are game-time decisions. But Harris is going to have his ribs taped and give it a try. Dooling said the swelling is down on his ankle and he's going to give it a try. X-rays on Dooling's ankle were negative.
The result of the CT Scan on Devin Harris' rib was negative. He's listed as day-to-day with bruised ribs.
That's much better news than if he had a cracked rib or anything.
Now, if you allow me to play doctor for a minute, if he has sharp pain and has difficulty breathing like Harris did Wednesday against New Orleans, it may not be the best thing for him to chase Tony Parker around tomorrow night in the first half of a back-to-back and the start of three games in four nights.
The Nets haven't given us an update on Devin Harris' condition. He went for the CT scan on his rib and we're waiting for the result.
But the Nets have announced they've recalled Sean Williams from the D-League. That's not going to help their point guard problem. It probably won't lift Williams' trade value either that he's back already after not doing that well for Colorado.
There's no other way to look at what happened last night in New Orleans. The Nets should have beaten the Hornets without their No. 2 scorer, No. 1 and 2 rebounders and their first big off the bench.
But the bigger concern now is Devin Harris and his rib. He couldn't finish the game, essentially his rib benched him one game after his coach did.
First it was Devin Harris, then Lawrence Frank and then Kiki Vandeweghe.
The first shootaround of the trip featured rapid-fire questions about the state of the Nets, what happened against Boston and the possible trade with the Bulls.
It was about 30 minutes of tape to re-listen to, maybe a little less if you take away Frank talking to Byron Scott, David West and James Posey as they went by.
First, Vandeweghe wouldn't comment on the trade story about Larry Hughes, but said nothing was imminent. I've heard that, but I've also heard something could happen quickly. It really is up to the Nets.
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