Robert ?Tractor? Traylor appears to be just days away from striking a deal with the New Jersey Nets.

"Tractor wants to be a Net and the Nets want to have Tractor," Traylor's agent, Andre Colona, said yesterday. "If I were a betting man, I'd say something would be done by early next week."

"I think the identity of our group is our bigs are going to be mean, tough, nasty guys who [can] score but are going to be really good screeners and rebounders, and they're going to close and protect the paint," Nets? coch Lawrence Frank said.