Jordi Fernandez has known Nuggets coach Michael Malone since their days in Cleveland, and he spent six seasons as an assistant under him in Denver.

The shorthanded Nets already brought a losing streak into their most daunting road trip of the season. Their slump promises to get a little longer. 

Day’Ron Sharpe isn’t just rounding into shape after his earlier injury.

In the NBA, things don’t change quickly. They change at warp speed. That could be good new for Nets fans if they're rebuild goes well.

With the trade deadline a month away, it probably shouldn’t be a shock that Jordi Fernandez’s current team and his former team are talking.

The threadbare Nets were without eight players in Monday’s 113-99 loss to Indiana, including a decimated backcourt sans point guards D’Angelo Russell and Ben Simmons.

The Nets (13-23) have dropped five of their past six and 10 of 13. They have the seventh-worst record in the NBA, a half-game better than the Trail Blazers.

Ben Simmons and D’Angelo Russell starred together at Montverde Academy for two years, going 45-2 with a couple of national championships.

Cam Johnson, the Nets’ most consistent player all season, got hurt on the second-to-last play of their 113-110 win in Milwaukee.

Jordi Fernandez is coaching to win.

Nets general manager Sean Marks craves nothing more than flexibility — the ability to pivot when needed and pounce when necessary.

The Raptors were on the longest losing skid in the NBA. Then the Nets showed them how losing is done.

D’Angelo Russell has come full circle, traded from the Lakers to the Nets for a second time. But this time not as a hotshot prospect but a mature leader.

After being forced out of Sunday’s loss with left hip soreness, Cam Johnson practiced fully and will be available Wednesday in Toronto.

D’Angelo Russell is back for a Brooklyn encore. With him on the floor, the Nets will have a different speed. A different style. Maybe even different starters.

The departure of Dorian Finney-Smith essentially thrust Noah Clowney into a starting role. Now it’s his job to prove he’s ready for it.

As soon as Cam Thomas came back, so did the Nets offense. But in the end, it was their defense that let them down against the Magic.

His lone All-Star season came with the Nets in 2018-19.

The Nets have had one of the NBA’s worst attacks ever since they lost Cam Thomas. But they’re on the brink of getting back their leading scorer.

The minute the Nets traded Dennis Schroder away, point guard was going to be a problem. Shake Milton is out to prove he can be part of the solution.