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January 15, 2009
Nets moving to Long Island?
NBC Sports Fan Zone: Scuttlebutt
Looks like a headline writer over at the NBC Sports rumor blog got a little carried away.
Talks with the Devils to use their arena in Newark for three games next preseason have apparently fallen apart. Word within the organization was that the talks may have been a testing ground to find a place for the Nets to reside if the Brooklyn arena never gets built. Nets management denies that, but now it's looking like the team is talking to the folks at Nassau Coliseum on Long Island, where the New York Islanders play, to play some games there. The plan is still that the team will be in Brooklyn in 2011 but the arena still isn't under construction and the current financial crisis as well as protests from such folks as Develop Don't Destroy Brooklyn has made team owner and real-estate developer Bruce Ratner seriously scale back his plans and possibly not be able to get the job done by then. (Newark Star-Ledger)
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NoLandGrab: What the Star-Ledger actually meant was that the Nets were considering the Nassau Mausoleum for some pre-season games.
Posted by eric at January 15, 2009 10:15 AM