The Nets' schedule says they play in Indiana tonight, but Monday, after American Airlines Flight 587 crashed in Queens two months and a day after the events of Sept. 11, they got on their chartered plane with some trepidation reports the Bergen Record.

"I wish we could bus to Indiana," said Lucious Harris, a father for the first time only last week.

"You won't catch me on a commercial flight the next five years," Keith Van Horn said. "[But] we get paid a lot of money to do this and we have to go on and live our lives and do our jobs the way we always have."

"I'm not Jayson Williams," Van Horn said to the Star-Ledger. "Jayson Williams gave me a couple of bruises sitting next to him one time. He doesn't move."

"I hear a lot of guys who were uncomfortable flying before are probably more uncomfortable, but I'm trying not to let myself go into that," Todd MacCulloch said to the New York Daily News. "You take the percentages and it sounds bad when it seems like there's planes going down all the time. But there are car accidents all the time and it's part of this job. I'd be anxious all the time if I let myself get worried."

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