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October 21, 2011
Brooklyn Nets desperately need a new name: It sounds bad, and it means nothing
NY Daily News
by Alexander Nazaryan
Nazaryan, who's written insipidly about Atlantic Yards before, wastes more ink on the critical issue of the name "Nets." Seriously.
But the Nets, currently of New Jersey and soon of Brooklyn, are the nadir of athletic nomenclature. True, we may not have a basketball league to speak off, since the segment of our maligned 1% that can dunk a basketball can't settle its dispute with franchise owners. But if Brooklyn does host its first pro team since the Dodgers decamped for Los Angeles in 1957, that team cannot be called the Nets.
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Atlantic Yards Report, Department of Diverted Attention: Daily News devotes long op-ed to question of Nets' name change
We'll leave it to Norman Oder to suggest more worthy topics.
But, really, is this what deserves extended discussion when the state has failed to hire a community relations rep and extended construction is disturbing neighbors?
NoLandGrab: Well, at least it keeps Nazaryan from writing nonsense about bikes and bike lanes.
Posted by eric at October 21, 2011 11:48 AM