It’s the least they can do for the NEW JERSEY Nets fans. Key words, NEW JERSEY.

I was thinking the New York Nets of Newark, like the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim. Like the New York Giants of East Rutherford or the New York Jets of East Rutherford.

Temporarily does nothing for me.
Suffer at the Izod Ratner……….. I’m not helping fund your proposed move out of the state.

NI -

The Brooklyn Nets of Newark has such a better ring to it than NY Nets…

How about the Newark Nets of Essex………………

I am all for the Nets moving to Newark til Brooklyn is ready

“I am all for the Nets moving to Newark til Brooklyn is ready”

Nah…………….. The Nets can’t have the benefit of The Rock unless they move their permanently.
Rot in the Izod if/until BK goes through or fails.
It’s only right.

^Yup.

I think that Hunter has given a very good description of why the Nets can’t draw at the IZOD. The “community” aspect is important. If they move Newark they would have a community to draw from as well as the other surrounding communities because of the mass transit

“Hunter said Nets attendance is hurt by a lack of community in the Meadowlands”

People have been saying this for awhile. Why keep them confined to that swamp up in haughty taughty Bergen County when they could be playing in an easily accessible city in Newark?? People will come, especially next year when this team is improved.

Mr. Hunter statement is no big speach. He is just trying to get on the banwagon of being politically correct. Who cares what he thinks. Everybody and somebody already knows for years that Brooklyn is going to be a mecca for basketball just like the MSG. Watch. Stop and think were all the players came from in this area. Brooklyn! Bernard King? Kenny Smith? Mark Jackson? Connie Hawkins? Do I need to go on? Now that everybody gets the message. Moving Newark helps the Nets in the short term and even helps sad NJ fans for the future to get another team in the Newark arena. Go Brooklyn Nets! Go Brooklyn Nets!

East Rutherford SwampNets

The Brick City nickname will be well earned if the Nets play in Newark.

(still better than Brooklyn though)

“Temporarily does nothing for me.”

Absolutely correct. Stay at the Meadowlands or a permanent move to Newark – that is all I would support.

If I hear that the move to Brooklyn is dead, then the Nets can go to Newark.

@ Trenton -

In no way shape of form is Newark better than Brooklyn…the two DO NOT COMPARE – Brooklyn is a hot bead for arts/entertainment/pop culture…what is Newark? Please explain to me why Newark will draw better than Brooklyn…why Newark will have a better cache than Brooklyn…it won’t happen…will not. A borough with 2.5 million, a city with 8 million are enough to support a team.

No one buys merchandise with Newark on it…but Brooklyn is seen all over the world. Merchandising alone will make the Nets one of the top 5 most profitable franchises int he NBA…it puts them int he same category as the Knicks/Lakers with out a doubt.

Yeah, but Newark (or even Brick City) Nets sounds better than Brooklyn Nets… and more likely to happen.

Guess what guys? The franchise was finally doing pretty darn good – UNTIL RATNER arrived. Jason Kidd took this team to 2 NBA Finals and you know what: Kidd is now once again leading a FIRST PLACE team in the West no less. Kidd grew tired of being here because once the pig bought the team it had no direction. After years of being a laughingstock, Kidd and some great role players finally gave the franchise some credibility but Ratner made it clear BASKETBALL was no longer a priority. And here we are 5 years later arguing Brooklyn vs Newark. It is a joke and it’s about time some of you finally relaized it.

Brooklyn anything sounds better than Newark

@SmartNetsFan

No one buys anything with Newark on it?

Tell that to newarkillustrated.com (7Flavaz) If you don’t want a Newark Illustrated shirt then there is something wrong with you.

Also, how about those NJ (NY Yankee Logo Style) New Era fitted hats. Those were crazy popular, so popular in fact, The Yankees caught wind and sued/prepared to sue for copywrite infringements. Now you can only find cheap, lame knockoffs.

Im not going to answer the rest of your statement. Its friday, i really don;t care…

Just answer me one question…
What has more of a cache…Newark or Brooklyn…

If you live in NJ – Newark

If you live in NY – Brookyln

This will all be settled soon enough. The hot new NBA rivalry will be the Newark Nets v. the Brooklyn Holes-in-the-Ground. Brooklyn home games will be held at the local “Y”, next to the rail yards.

Brooklyn means something all over the world…Newark does not.

Brooklyn is a feeding ground for arts/entertainment and culture

Newark is not

I was in China for business not 4 months ago and I saw 12 year old Asian kids running around with Brooklyn t-shirts on…not Newark…BROOKLYN

I must be out of the loop because I havent really seen anything with Brooklyn on it. All I see are things with New York written on them, but not Brooklyn itself.

SmartNetsFan, just because there are shirts with Brooklyn on them doesn’t mean that it’s better. I have heard about shirts with Dubai with the Burj Dubai on almost everything, but I don’t think that’s the best either. Advertising and marketing more does not always equal superiority. I still prefer the Mets over the Yankees even though they advertise less and the same thing goes for Digimon over Pokemon, but that’s besides the point. I even like the WNBA despite how little coverage it gets. My point is that there is more to saying what is better than just by being on t-shirt or any other clothing.

I’m glad you brought up Digimon and Pokemon on this posting…really shows the level of intelligence we’re dealing with here.

Brooklyn has a cache that Newark will never touch.

Deal with it

Unless the Nets get Lebron or Wade, it will take a generation before people in Brooklyn will start rooting for the Nets.

You just can’t say that NYC will support a team just because it has Brooklyn or NY on it. Does being in LA help the Clippers? Maybe they were better off staying in San Diego or Buffalo(when they were the Braves). Their owners are making more news for their sleazy business practices than team (wait this sounds really familiar).

“Brooklyn has a cache that Newark will never touch.”

So what?
I’m a New Jersey Nets fan, not a Brooklyn Nets fan. All the cache in the world won’t change that.
It’s a simple concept really.

SmartNetsFan, you missed my point here. I mentioned that more advertising and marketing does not always equal superiority. Don’t use the hipster talk to make that claim either. By your logic, was it better to have Bloomberg serve another term because he had more campaigns ads and spent more money running than Thompson did? Personally, I do not like something just because of the level of hype it gets, it’s more on quality rather than quantity.

Were you a NY Nets fan before they were NJ NEts?

Were you a New Jersey Americans fan before they were the NY Nets?

Amen Tal Barzilai! LOL. Go NJ Nets!

Even if we exclude the innagural season of when they were the NJ Americans, they have still been a NJ team longer that then they were a NY team. The reason they went back to NJ after their first year as an NBA franchise was because they saw that they couldn’t compete with the Knicks and didn’t want to play in their shadow. Let’s not forget that the idea of having the Nets move to Newark isn’t something new, so this wasn’t the first time it was thought of. The first reason why Newark was brought up for the Nets was because it was found that it was easy to get their by driving and by public transportation compared to the Meadowlands hence more fans especially from other parts of the state because of a transportation hub being nearby.