Introducing: Something to Prove: The Story of the 2002 and 2003 Nets

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It was a team that nobody saw coming, and now
two decades later, we're looking back at the stunning turnaround
of the New Jersey Nets in our new podcast Something
to Prove the Story of the two thousand and two
and two thousand and three New Jersey Nets. In the
summer of two thousand and one, the Nets had one
playoff series win to show for in their first twenty

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five years in the NBA. They had made the playoffs
just once in the last seven years, and we're coming
off a twenty six win season. After twenty seasons at
the Meadowlands, even their own fans were tuning out. One
blockbuster trade changed everything for the franchise. When GM Rod
Thorn acquired point guard Jason Kidd, he transformed his team

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with an elite floor general. With Kid, Perry Kittles, Kenyan Martin,
and Richard Jefferson's, the Nets were a fast breaking dynamo
with the league's best defense. They doubled their win total
in one season and then stunned the league with a
run to the finals. Then they did it again in
the next year. You're from Jason Kidd, Curry, Kittles, Ein, Eagle,

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and Moore who were there for one of the great
turnarounds in NBA history, as the nets came from nowhere
to go to back to back NBA Finals. Listen to
Something to Prove on the iHeartRadio app or wherever you
get your podcasts.