Nets Still Trying to Earn Respect ; Quietly Confident Facing Knicks

The Record, Bergen County, NJ › April 20, 2004

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EAST RUTHERFORD - If Byron Scott still coached the Nets, by now his feet would be chewed down to their heels from planting them in his mouth talking about the Knicks.

He would have filled notebooks and tape recorders with all sorts of incendiary talk about how the Nets-Knicks first-round playoff series, which starts this afternoon at Continental Arena, represents the basketball equivalent of good vs. evil.

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Nets Still Trying to Earn Respect ; Quietly Confident Facing Knicks

He'd flash his championship rings in front of his team, invoke the back-to-back Eastern Conference championships his last two teams won, maybe walk out behind the Nets' East Rutherford practice facility, point in the direction of...

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