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March 31, 2010
Stupor Size Thee: Nets’ Yormark Tries To Buy Bag Man’s Silence With A Big Mac
Can't Stop The Bleeding
While Monday’s 90-84 defeat of San Antonio assured the Nets they’d no longer challenge for the worst NBA mark of all time, dignity in the Meadowlands is sadly, short-lived. Following an embarrassing, widely-publicized confrontation with a paper bag-wearing fan, Nets exec Brett Yormark attempted to curry favor with a conciliatory luncheon/webcast earlier today, catered by a local McDonald’s. From the AP’s Tom Canavan:
“Today was another good example of us being able to tell our fans, hey, when you want a voice, you’ll get one with us,” Yormark said in a telephone interview with The Associated Press. “That’s who we are, the type of franchise we are and we want to be. I think resorting to a brown bag doesn’t do anyone any good and they realize that, and they were very nice and had good things to say about the franchise.”
The lunch at the team’s headquarters in East Rutherford was streamed over the Nets’ Web site although the broadcast shut down because so many people logged on, Yormark said.
“I think, in many respects, a lot of good things have come out of this,” Yormark said. “We were able to reinforce our message to season ticket holders. We don’t have any more brown bags in the building, not that we had a lot to begin with before that incident, our players seemed to rally around it and we are playing our best basketball of the season.
“I don’t know if it was a negative,” Yormark added. “It was an unfortunate incident. I try to make the most of any situation and I think I did.”
NoLandGrab: We'd be more inclined to don the bag while lunching with Yormark than while sitting courtside.
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“Thank you for coming to the game, paying my salary, and watching this historically horrendous 7 win, 63 loss team I’ve helped assemble.”
That’s what Brett Yormark, the New Jersey Nets Chief Executive, should have said to two fans sitting courtside during the Nets’ loss to Miami on Monday night.
Hell, he should have tattooed [it] to his face, or at least included it [in] the marketing for “Free Tax Return Night”—the worst promotion giveaway in sports history.
Posted by eric at March 31, 2010 10:12 AM