It's not always about basketball.
In the hours leading up to Saturday's games, three members of the Nets took time for some reflection on very different subjects. Thaddeus Young, whose mother died of breast cancer last year, was on hand at 9 a.m. Saturday for a 5K run he supported in his native Memphis. Thousands turned out for the event, arranged in cooperation with the Susan G. Komen Foundation.
"I just wanted to raise awareness," said Young. "Brest cancer, and cancer in general, is a deadly harmful disease."
Meanwhile, in another part of Memphis, Willie Reed and Chris McCullough, the Nets' two inactive players, toured the National Civil Rights Museum at the site of Martin Luther King's assassination.