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November 16, 2010
Knicks to Brooklyn: We are your team
The Brooklyn Paper
by Joe Melillo and Stephen Brown
Remarkably, the Brooklyn Paper devoted two reporters to this non-story.
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The New York Knicks have decided that it’s not enough to battle the Nets on the court — the team is now taking the fight to the streets of Brooklyn in hopes of recruiting fans of the soon-to-be-Brooklyn Nets.
A huge billboard at Flatbush and Seventh avenues urges drivers on their way towards the Barclays Center site to defect to the Manhattan-based basketball team.
The local intelligentsia is up in arms.
“Putting a billboard up like that so close to the Barclays Center, it’s like putting a mosque near Ground Zero,” said basketball fanatic Chris Tucker of Bedford-Stuyvesant. “I’m up in arms about this.”
...“We’re insulted because the Knicks are coming in here while we’re trying to get a basketball team,” said Flatbush resident Chiloupe Washington.
Seriously?
Additional (believe it or not) coverage...
Gothamist, Knicks Invade Atlantic Yards with New Billboard
Photo: Joseph Melillo/The Brooklyn Paper
Posted by eric at November 16, 2010 8:34 AM