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July 26, 2009
Truth and lies about Steelers QB Ben Roethlisberger, Andrea McNulty
Daily News
By Mike Lupica
Here's more criticism of the way team owner Bruce Ratner has handled the New Jersey Nets.
You wonder how this all would have worked out for Bruce Ratner if he'd tried to bring the Nets to Brooklyn the right way.
Not using them to make a real estate score.
Not looking to turn the part of Brooklyn that the city and state handed to him into Ratner World.
Not with some Frank Gehry/Star Wars arena.
Just a basketball arena for a basketball team that would have brought professional sports back to the borough of Brooklyn.
But that wasn't enough for Ratner, and soon he'll be out of the Nets business and somebody else will own the team that can't get any better because there's no money.
Ratner will blame this on the economy, or Develop Don't Destroy Brooklyn, or Danny Goldstein, who led the resistance.
The person Ratner ought to blame is himself.
Posted by steve at July 26, 2009 7:58 AM