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July 11, 2012
People of metropolis wait for Superman
New York Post
by Steve Serby
Remember that Dwight "Superman" Howard has won as many NBA titles as Deron Williams, Joe Johnson, the New York Nets, the New Jersey Nets and the Brooklyn Nets combined: ZERO.
Maybe the fates are about to stop being so cruel. Maybe this time, along Flatbush Avenue, it will feel as if Ralph Branca has rifled a fastball past Bobby Thomson more than half a century later.
They wait now for Dwight Howard, even as construction workers remain busy bees making the Barclays Center whole for the 2012 Brooklyn Nets. They can’t wait, those who are not wearing Linsanity T-shirts, but they will wait, because when you have waited 55 years for a professional team to call your own, another 24 hours is bearable.
Mikhail Prokhorov doesn’t need a billboard staring right at James Dolan’s Garden anymore. If he succeeds at this bold game of Russian Woo-lette, then the Nets owner’s Blueprint for Greatness will be the Knicks’ worst Dwightmare.
NoLandGrab: The whole "Superman" thing kinda breaks down with the knowledge that a real Super Villain version of Lex Luthor is building the arena.
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BrooklynFans.com, DWIGHT DAY: HOWARD TO BE DEALT WEDNESDAY … TO BROOKLYN?
The Orlando Magic will give in Wednesday. They’ll trade Dwight Howard.
Will anyone step up and offer a better package than the one put together by the ever-efforting Brooklyn Nets?
...If [NLG: when] the trade falls through and Lopez is the Nets center when Barclays Center opens, that contract is gonna be the only love the team has shown Brook. Not only did they openly talk about trading him before, during, and after last season … they then asked him to show up April 30th to launch Jay Z’s new Nets colors in Brooklyn and represent the team — and Brook did it. Humble.
Posted by eric at July 11, 2012 1:09 PM