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December 31, 2004
Cousin Brucie: Ratner Lands Nets to Bring Big-Time Sports Back to Brooklyn
The Brooklyn Daily Eagle: Best of 2004
Though he’s still hearing it from local community boards, angry New Jersey residents and every Nets fan from Passaic to Park Slope who thinks he knows how to run an NBA franchise, Bruce Ratner made Brooklyn sports history this year.
“What was only an idea less than a year ago is quickly becoming a reality,” Ratner said in August after having his ownership ratified by representatives from all 30 NBA teams.
Ironically, the Nets’ scheduled relocation will fall on the 50th anniversary of the Brooklyn Dodgers’ departure from our fair borough in 1957.
Posted by lumi at December 31, 2004 9:26 AM