Help is on the Way for Next Season

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<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- Help is coming for the Nets' sudden lack of frontcourt depth in the form of 2002 first-round pick Nenad Krstic, but the part-owner of Krstic's club team says that help is still a season away.

"It would be a lot of problems if he tried to come over now," said Kings center Vlade Divac, the part-owner of Partizan, Krstic's Yugoslavian League team. "You've got media, you've got fans -- they'd all jump on you. He's going to be our top player this year."

Yet while Divac dismissed any idea that Krstic could come over now that the Nets have lost Alonzo Mourning, Divac was still plenty high on the future of the 20-year-old from Serbia-Montenegro.</div>

Full Story:

http://www.nj.com/nets/ledger/index.ssf?/b...61474264460.xml

Player Profile:

http://www.nba.com/draft2002/profiles/nenad_krstic.html

A big man with a medium range shot and tremendous jumping ability. He might be what the doctor ordered for the Nets.

<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">As an 18-year-old playing his first full season at the top level in Yugoslavia, averaged 8.1 points and 5.7 rebounds per game while playing about 19 minutes per game.</div>