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This project has seemed to fizzle, I think the Nets would do great in Brooklyn, and the revenue jump the franchise would see would help bring in free agents, added that playing in Brooklyn would be seen as a major market, even though the distance to the city is just about the same as it is from NJ.
If the plan falls through, then I think we will see Ratner & Jay Z sell and Lebron James may as well start learning the lyrics to "GO NY GO NY GO!!!"
I wouldn't bet on it. Give it a few years, and the Nets are gonna end up either staying at the Izod Center or sharing with the Devils at Newark's Prudential Center.
I think that the arena in downtown Brooklyn is going to be built; Ratner just took it for granted that he was going to be able to bulldoze his way through all the surrounding communities. He learned differently!
And of course it will be a homecoming for the Nets, who started life in the ABA as the New York Nets, playing in the old Commack Arena on Long Island. If nothing else, a Nets team in Brooklyn will put a little more pressure on the Knicks to get their act together.
And of course it will be a homecoming for the Nets, who started life in the ABA as the New York Nets, playing in the old Commack Arena on Long Island.
They actually started as the New Jersey Americans.
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