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April 25, 2012
The Perfect Name for Brooklyn's Team
The Wall Street Journal
by Jason Gay
The Nets are done with Jersey. That is that. They wrapped their final semester-at-sea in Newark with a stinker loss to Philadelphia Monday; Net-loather Chris Christie did not wander out to mid-court and warble Elvis Costello's "I Hope You're Happy Now"; there was no high-speed, 50-Ferrari trooper escort to the Verrazano Bridge. They have a road game left at Toronto, but the Nets belong to Brooklyn. Time to blow out the beards, guys. Grow them fuzzy and 19th century.
I am panicky about this team. They're going to be playing down the street, so I want them to be fun, but they're not very good, and they may lose their best player, Deron Williams, to free agency. The Nets will get a honeymoon in Brooklyn but it may be brief. If the team is a stink-bomb it will turn into the worst kind of smart-alecky joke; there's too much happening in this borough for fans to stay loyal through years of misery.
But right away, there's something else that these Brooklyn Nets are bungling and it has to be said.
The nickname has to go.
Posted by eric at April 25, 2012 11:30 AM