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February 20, 2010
New Jersey Nets earn 50th loss for the season, falling to the Toronto Rapters, 106-89
Daily News
By Julian Garcia
Bruce Ratner is sighted attending a Nets game.
Atlantic Yards project aside, Bruce Ratner must feel pretty good about selling the Nets after what he witnessed Friday night.
With Ratner sitting courtside for one of the few times this season, and perhaps one of the last, the Nets turned in a woeful first-half performance against the Raptors - falling behind by 20 points even though Chris Bosh was in Canada - and lost, 106-89, in front of 11,994 at the Meadowlands.
Ratner, whose sale of the team to Russian billionaire Mikhail Prokhorov is expected to be approved by the league sometime next month, witnessed the Nets fall to 5-50, New Jersey staying on pace to win just eight games, which would break the all-time mark for fewest victories in one season. The 1972-73 Philadelphia 76ers set the record, finishing 9-73.
NoLandGrab: Ratner is also on track to set a record for "Most taxpayer funds spent on a public project without public benefit" should the proposed Atlantic Yards project be built.
Posted by steve at February 20, 2010 10:48 AM