SG/SF Bobby Simmons is making $11,242,666 bucks this season which makes his play this season even more disturbing. Simmons has played in 23 games (2 starts) for the Nets this season and he is averaging 17.2 minutes, 5.3 points, 2.7 rebounds and 0.7 assists per game. He is only shooting 35.9% from the floor and 31.7% from three point range this year. Simmons has been so awful that even the Nets have decided to keep him at the end of the bench. Unless he starts shooting better the Nets will continue to cut his minutes on the court.

Power forward Kris Humphries hasn’t been with the Nets too long but he’s already making a mark for them. He has played in 8 games (0 starts) for the Nets this season and he is averaging 24.8 minutes, 13.3 points, 6.4 rebounds and 1.0 assist per game. Humphries will continue to get this kind of playing time as long as he is going good for the Nets. He is already a huge upgrade over the player the Nets traded him for (Eduardo Najera).

With the Nets sitting at 3-36 on the season they have decided that everyone except center Brook Lopez is on the trading block. That includes starting point guard Devin Harris who the Nets no longer consider as a core player. He has played in 28 games (25 starts) for the Nets this season and he is averaging 34.2 minutes, 16.1 points, 3.2 rebounds, 5.9 assists and 1.6 steals per game. Harris’ shooting is way off this season as he is only hitting 38.5% of his shots from the floor and 21.1% from the three point line. The Nets had better make sure they get a nice return for Harris who is much better than he is showing right now and he could make them look really bad down the road.

The Nets released Shawne Williams before he even played a game for them after coming over earlier this week from the Mavericks in the Eduardo Najera trade. Williams was indicted by the Grand Jury on 8 drug charges. The Nets didn’t want Williams anywhere near the young roster they have right now.

Shooting guard Courtney Lee was the key part of the return for Vince Carter and he is not playing too well. Lee has played in 30 games (25 starts) this season and he is averaging 33.2 minutes, 11.5 points, 3.6 rebounds, 2.1 assists and 1.6 steals per game. He has only shot 39.1% from the floor and 27.2% from three point range this season. I know that the Nets are 3-34 on the year so I’m not saying that Lee is a big reason for the teams’ downfall this season but he’s not helping too much either.