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Sean Avery, placed on the top line with Gomez and Jagr got things started with a goal at 12:12 of the first period. Brandon Dubinsky scored a few minutes later and the Rangers never looked back. Jaromir Jagr capped the scoring in the third period with some hard work and a nice assist from Martin Straka who handed Jagr a replacement stick after he broke his original one.

Last night, the Nets lost a rare game to their cross-river rival in which both teams were without key players. Normally, the story would be Marbury missing the game to grieve his father's death and Curry embarrassingly spraining his ankle during a walkthrough, but instead, the Nets troubles were the talk of the town this morning. Jason Kidd missed the game last night due to what he said were migraines, but several people at the...

Devils 6, Flyers 2: After three failed bids to get Martin Brodeur his 500th career win, the Devils finally provided him some margin of error. They played stingy defense and lit the lamp six times en route to an easy milestone win. Brodeur joins Patrick Roy as the only netminders with 500 wins. Dainius Zubrus got the party started and added an assist. As happy as the Devils are for Brodeur, they're probably happiest that...

-Mavericks 92, Nets 75: New Jersey never led and never had a sniff of this basketball game. Good thing the Nets play in such a dreadful division; they are still tied for the division lead despite a 7-10 record. The good news from Tuesday: Vince Carter looks like he'll be motivated all season long. The bad: Lawrence Frank's team came out flat and could never match the Mavericks. Too many times this year, the Nets look like they're not fully into the game they're playing. Plenty of NBA teams play like that for a while, but the Nets are at the point where they should want to prove something to themselves.

-Knicks 100, Heat 76: Eddy Curry's 5-for-5 shooting in the third quarter helped the Knicks outscore the Heat, 34-14, in the period and helped New York roll to its second straight win. It's the Knicks' first winning streak of the season, though Friday's win came over a decimated Heat team. The Knicks have won the two games by a combined 44 points, and they've called on a wide range of contributors. Jamal Crawford, who scored 19, called it "the most balanced victory so far." They've had four through their first 10 games.

After bowing out in five games to the Miami Heat in the Eastern Conference semifinals iast season, the Nets didn't feel the need to retool their starting lineup. Who wouldn't be happy with Vince Carter, Jason Kidd, Richard Jefferson and Nenad Krstic on the floor for the tipoff? Instead, they knew their reserves could be better, and that's the weakness they concentrated on in the offseason. Head coach Lawrence Frank should have a better team sitting next to him this season.

For the Nets, no player can make a bigger impact than Vince Carter. He scored 34 points (including an acrobatic game-clinching dunk with 28 seconds to play) in the Nets' 92-86 win over Indiana. New Jersey leads the series three games to two, and Carter has been the reason they have won all three games. As much as head coach Lawrence Frank loves to talk about how important the Nets' defense is, without a dominant postseason from Carter, the Nets will not make it far. Carter's point totals have been high all series, but he shot 12 of 33 and eight of 21 in the Nets' two losses.

Lawrence Frank must wonder why his team can't play their best basketball when they don't trail in this series. For the second time this series, the Nets coach saw his players respond from a loss, this time in a 97-88 win over the Pacers Saturday. Just as it appeared in the other win, the Nets' recipe for success included an efficient night from Vince Carter, a more involved Jason Kidd and a foul-ridden performance by Pacer Jermaine O'Neal. The Indiana forward fouled out with 1:21 to go, stopping the momentum his team had gathered in the game's final minutes.

If someone told Nets coach Lawrence Frank he could have the Indiana Pacers' best player in foul trouble all afternoon and force the Pacers to rely on a reserve point guard, he probably would have signed on the dotted line. Yet Jermaine O'Neal scored when it counted and Anthony Johnson, a former Net, hit two free throws in the final second of a 90-88 win over New Jersey. The Pacers lead the four-of-seven series 1-0. Frank can take the good and the bad from this performance.

In case any doubt lingered about the Nets' lackluster effort during the season's last few games, New Jersey removed any doubt with a 90-83 loss to the Knicks at home. Of course, Lawrence Frank rested his stars to the point that the quartet of Vince Carter, Nenad Krstic, Jason Kidd and Richard Jefferson totaled just 18 minutes. All belonged to Jefferson. Jacque Vaughn led the team with 15 points, and the not-even-trying Nets almost came from behind to beat the Knicks.

A day after helping the Bulls stay in the Eastern Conference playoff race, the Nets did the same with the 76ers. Philadelphia crushed New Jersey 116-96 on Wednesday. Lawrence Frank and company must not have wanted to give an unfair advantage to either squad. Allen Iverson dropped forty on the Nets, who have now gone 1-3 since having their 14-game winning streak snapped. After playing so well for over a month, the Nets have taken their foot off the gas pedal. Their defense the past two nights has been non-existent; they allowed Philadelphia to shoot 50 percent from the floor for the game just a day after getting lit up by the Bulls.

As the playoffs near, the Nets have less and less to play for. Barring a drastic turnaround in the standings, they will end up as the three seed. Still, Gothamist likes their perforances in recent nights, including Tuesday's 112-100 win at Washington. Those stumbles of late February and early March now look more like a momentary disruption than a bad sign for the playoffs.

Without Vince Carter, the Nets become a beatable team, even at home. They made that transition Sunday in a 101-91 loss to Indiana. Carter left the game in the first quarter with an apparent hamstring injury, and the Nets could not rebound. Even with Jacque Vaughn's 12-point, 30-minute performance, New Jersey struggled to contain Indiana's outside shooters. Fred Jones and Peja Stojakovic each scorched the Nets with 22 apiece from outside.

After a sluggish start, the Nets have won 12 of 15 games, including Wednesday's win over Philadelphia. Their recent streak has established their position as an upper-tier team in their conference (they lead the Sixers in their division by four games), but one that does not quite seem ready to handle the best teams in the league. For the first of these two characteristics, they have Vince Carter to thank.

Vince Carter and the Nets may have seen their ten-game winning streak snapped last night in a 96-91 loss at San Antonio, but Lawrence Frank's team has nothing to be ashamed of. Their streak may not have come against the best competition, but it was a desperately needed run that has vaulted them to a 19-13 record after their sluggish start. Vince Carter has shown his better half of late, and Jason Kidd continues to run the team efficiently. Richard Jefferson's back spasms caused him to miss the game against San Antonio.

Going into last night's game, the Nets lost 9 straight games, including the playoffs, to the Miami Heat. Shaquille O'Neal sat out the game with an injury and the game came down to the final moments. Trailing by as many as 10 points in the 4th quarter, the Nets managed to tied the game with 45 seconds left. From there, it was the officials that decided the game.

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