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February 24, 2010
It came from the Blogosphere...
Off the Dribble [NY Times NBA blog], Nets Chief Executive Looks Forward to Turning the Page
For Brett Yormark, the chief executive of the Nets, next season cannot come soon enough. With just five wins, the team is on track to set a league record for losses.
...“For us, it’s about talking about a new story and going through a total transformation,” Yormark, a relentless marketer, said before the Nets lost to the Portland Trail Blazers on Tuesday. “We’ll have a new home, new coach, new owners, new players and a new attitude.”
...Still, Yormark acknowledges that this season has been a tough one. No amount of optimism can sugarcoat a team with just five wins. Fans understand that teams suffer injuries and bad breaks, but at the end of the day, wins are what count most.
“We’ve been beset by injuries, then we got into a tailspin and it’s hard to recover,” Yormark said.
NoLandGrab: Good excuse, except the Nets have had their full complement of players for some time, and the results have been identical.
Develop Don't Destroy Brooklyn, More Negligence on Atlantic Yards Arena Security
The latest on New York State and City not performing their obligation to ensure the public's safety. Don't any of our elected "leaders" ever get embarrassed by this sort of stuff?
Bleed Scarlet, Not the greatest RU sports weekend
Per Josh Margolin and Ted Sherman from the Star-Ledger, the Nets are finally moving to Newark next year. Keeping them in Izod was just a terrible idea from the start…as is putting an arena in Brooklyn. As per the article, Gov. Christie’s administration did secure several additional concessions from Forest City Ratner. The whole reason the Nets stayed in Izod instead of the Rock in the first place was to avoid any suggestion that their stay in Newark could become permanent.
Phil Reisman [LoHud.com], Questions About Ratner and Ridge Hill
A Brooklyn activist by the name of David [sic] Goldstein writing for The Huffington Post poses some serious questions about why Forest City Ratner, the developer of the Ridge Hill project in Yonkers, escaped accusations of criminality in a bribe case that resulted in the indictments of Yonkers city Councilwoman Sandy Annabi, former city Republican chief Zehy Jereis and Anthony Mangone.
Goldstein's interest in Ridge Hill stems from his opposition to the highly controversial $4.9 billion “Atlantic Yards” project in Brooklyn—another Forest City project—which includes the construction of 16 high-rises buildings and a basketball arena for the worst basketball team in the history of the NBA, the Nets.
Posted by eric at February 24, 2010 8:26 PM