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September 29, 2009
Prudential Center Hosts Nets and Devils Open Season
The Star-Ledger
By "Inside Jersey Staff"
Though Nets owner Bruce Ratner would rather the team be playing in Brooklyn, this month the gravity of the Prudential Center in Newark has temporarily pulled the team into its orbit:
Newark's Prudential Center will be a true Mecca for sports fans this month. The new home for the New Jersey Devils hockey team will host two preseason New Jersey Nets basketball games: The Nets will tip off against the 2008 NBA champ Boston Celtics on Oct. 13 at 7 p.m. and take on their rival neighbors, the New York Knicks, on Oct. 15 at 7 p.m. Tickets cost $10 to $500, and are available through ticketmaster.com.
Typically, the Nets play their home games at East Rutherford's Izod Center, but their owner, real estate developer Bruce Ratner, has been planning amid much controversy to relocate them to the Barclays Center, part of the trouble-plagued Atlantic Yards project in Brooklyn. Given that the Izod Center's future has been in question since the Devils' exit in 2007, the Nets' two preseason games in Newark will no doubt allow the NBA team to test the water at the Prudential Center as a possible temporary home before the completion of the Barclays Center.
Posted by lumi at September 29, 2009 5:30 AM