Comments on: Pipe Dream 2010 Update – Nets Won’t Be In Brooklyn in 2010

By: griphook2008

griphook2008 — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 06:37:11 +0000

I live in Brooklyn and would *love* to see the Nets play here. Three factors:
1) That site has incredible transit access and would be great for a stadium.
2) It was depressing as hell to see the Nets in their Jason Kidd heyday playing in the playoffs and even once for a championship and the arenas were perhaps 1/3rd full. Nobody lives there.
3) I think EVERY BOROUGH in NYC should have its own basketball team. (Perhaps not Staten Island.) Seriously, this town is hoops central. Can you believe there are teams in Oklahoma and Portland that barely anyone attends and yet no team playing in the Bronx or Queens? Ghastly!
The only problem is Ratner’s total destruction of the borough through high-rise luxury condos in order to build the stadium. They should scrap the entire project, leave only the stadium, and bring the Nets in ASAP.
I’ll always be a Knicks fan. But that doesn’t mean I wouldn’t love to pay half the price to see a team managed by Rod Thorn instead of the Dolans. Bring ‘em in!

aw hell no, keep the Nets and their crappy real estate empire outta brooklyn. i dont think none of the other boroughs need a team neither. one city, one team. knicks forever

By: Ben

Ben — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 06:12:16 +0000

I live in Brooklyn and would *love* to see the Nets play here. Three factors:

1) That site has incredible transit access and would be great for a stadium.
2) It was depressing as hell to see the Nets in their Jason Kidd heyday playing in the playoffs and even once for a championship and the arenas were perhaps 1/3rd full. Nobody lives there.
3) I think EVERY BOROUGH in NYC should have its own basketball team. (Perhaps not Staten Island.) Seriously, this town is hoops central. Can you believe there are teams in Oklahoma and Portland that barely anyone attends and yet no team playing in the Bronx or Queens? Ghastly!

The only problem is Ratner’s total destruction of the borough through high-rise luxury condos in order to build the stadium. They should scrap the entire project, leave only the stadium, and bring the Nets in ASAP.

I’ll always be a Knicks fan. But that doesn’t mean I wouldn’t love to pay half the price to see a team managed by Rod Thorn instead of the Dolans. Bring ‘em in!

By: kp

kp — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 02:44:59 +0000

As a Knicks fan, I think the Nets coming to Brooklyn would be positive. Dolan has been able to run the Knicks into the ground and still turn a big profit with no competition for the fan base in NYC. With a contending team in Brooklyn, and an arena that is easily accessible by subway, the Knicks will be forced to put a better team on the floor or face losing part of their fan base.

Competition is good.

By: jon abbey

jon abbey — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 16:55:37 +0000

and the fan base here in NJ has always sucked. even when the Nets made the Finals in consecutive years, no one cared. this is largely their own fault, they put the Nets (and Devils) on a pay TV channel for years while the Knicks/Rangers were free, but it is still the case.

By: DS

DS — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 13:58:47 +0000

“i dont get y the nets are moving anyway???”

Brooklyn is a HUGE market. If it were its own city it would be the fourth largest in the U.S. and its infrastructure seems to be growing (at least before the economic downturn it did). The Barclays would be nicer and infinitely more transit accessible. Also, the Nets are part of a giant Ratner project to make over downtown Brooklyn [for the record, I'm personally not in love w/ the idea of the downtown Brooklyn project]. Finally, I think including a sports arena (to allegedly benefit the public) in his project, strengthened Ratner’s argument for eminent domain over people’s homes so that he could make his project expansive.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brooklyn
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Largest_U.S._cities

By: s.bucketz

s.bucketz — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 05:50:10 +0000

goin bak to the mistrust thing,im talkin about how even tho the thunder are the sonics, from all the seattle heads ive heard from they are not on board with the thunder…gary payton said he wont even let them retire his number given the opportunity and that he’d rather wait for another team to come to seattle

By: s.bucketz

s.bucketz — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 05:48:09 +0000

i dont get y the nets are moving anyway???ther building that huge complex right next door so wouldn’t that bring in more people???i duno i dont really care im from jersey but hav always hated the nets..if they do move i see a lot more jersey heads jumpin on the knicks bandwagon because of mistrust with the nets plus i dont see a lot of the nets fan base bein too into brooklyn

By: daniel

daniel — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 05:45:03 +0000

eric gordon scored 33 in his first pre season game…just sayin…

http://scores.espn.go.com/nba/recap?gameId=281015023

By: Danisrob

Danisrob — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 22:04:04 +0000

How much of a % does Jay Z actually own, and would he have any say into any of the doings of the Nets? He always gets talked about like it is his team.

By: nero

nero — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 21:10:05 +0000

I said this so many times and nobody believed me. Just because an NBA owner made an announcement that the Nets would be in Brooklyn by 2010 doesn’t make it true.

They still have to deal with all the legal challenges plus building a huge complex in NYC with all the zoning laws, construction delays and community objections.

Now who wants to take the bet that they won’t be in NJ by 2011 either?

I said it here first: 2015 at the earliest

Wasn’t 2010 the date the freedom tower was supposed to be built by also? and ground zero has not made any progress in 7 years