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November 14, 2009
This and That: November Edition
News 12
Included in these short items about the Yankees, Giants and Devils is this dark assessment of the Nets and their uncertain future.
NETS: a team that has been reduced to complete and total irrelevance. The proposed Brooklyn move has turned off fans and tuned out any real interest. Just six years ago, the Nets were coming off back-to-back trips to the NBA Finals and came within two victories of winning it all. Today, Bruce Ratner has turned the Nets back to a laughingstock. He was surely going to dump the team as soon as he got his real estate deal completed, but that story drags on and on.
Now the team is so desperate for fans they offer reversible jerseys, a no-name Net on one side and a visiting NBA star on the other. At least one is a Jason Kidd model. And he’s the visitor.
The team will likely move to Newark as early as next season. “A temporary move,” the Nets will tell you. “It was always inevitable,” says I.
Posted by steve at November 14, 2009 7:13 AM