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March 4, 2010
Great Fun With the Guessing Game
The New York Times
by Howard Beck
LeBron James and the Cleveland Cavaliers routed the Nets (no surprise) last night at the IZOD Center.
In the stands, there were more Cavaliers jerseys — from every era of their existence — than Nets jerseys. James got the loudest cheers during pregame introductions, but that was relative to the meager cheers for the Nets. There weren’t enough people in the building at tip-off to actually roar for anyone.
...It was hard to see what might lure James, the reigning most valuable player, to the Jersey swamp. The thousands of empty mauve seats? The incomplete ski jump in the parking lot? The sign above the viaduct that boasts North New Jersey as the “Embroidery Capital of the World?”
(Then again, the Nets will have a new home by the time James goes team shopping. They are planning a move to Newark for next season and then to Brooklyn in 2012.)
There is no question that James is at least considering the Knicks and that he has given a passing thought to the Nets.
...In their latest promotion, the Nets gave some ticket-buyers a reversible jersey — with James’s name on one side and Jarvis Hayes’s on the other. It may be as close as James gets to a Nets uniform.
Posted by eric at March 4, 2010 3:17 PM