Without a doubt. But this has been going on for at least the last 3 seasons. I have been able to attend a lot of games via Ebay and StubHub. In fact last season when I had season tickets, I attended more games via other tickets on Ebay, in better seats and cheaper than the face value of my season ticket seats.

This season I was able to go to the Nets vs Warriors game and sit Row A courtside for 70.00 for 2 tickets! Not each. 70.00 for two tickets! That is a 500.00 ticket for 35.00. I have been taking full advantage of this as of recently. Because I know pricing will be diffrent if they go to The Rock especially if they get a superstar free agent.

LeBron’s high school games went for more money.

13,374 the listed attendance last night. Note to David Stern, Net Income and all the other non-believers: MOST LOYAL FANS IN THE NBA are in NEW JERSEY.

Try having the owner tell the fans in any other market that they will be almost definitely be losing their team in two years to a nearby city that already has an NBA team and see show many people show up a few nights later for a TWO-WIN TEAM that this same owner played a huge hand in creating! About 3,000 would be a minor miracle. 13,374 proves New Jersey fans are the most loyal in the NBA.

It shows that NJ residents are turned off by the whole Brooklyn thang.

Yes, NJ residents before the Brooklyn move were very excited about the team and supportive

13,374 was the LISTED attendance. I can tell you right now their was not 13,000 on hand for the game. The NBA never releases the turnstile attendance. I would say it was probably closer to 8-10 thousand. Agreed is still a lot for a 2 win team.

Also I don’t know how you can call Jersey the most loyal fans. This team was drawing announced attendance games of 11,000 when the Nets were a 50 win team. If the Nets had sold out more than 5 games that season, and more than 3-5 the next 5 seasons than maybe Brooklyn wouldn’t have ever been an option. Maybe than owners that were supposed to stay and keep the team in NJ would have stayed instead of letting loose a bleeding stuffed pig.

Probably one of the best attendance year was in 05-06. I remember going to a game against the Miami Heat (who were than kinda our rivals). The arena was a sell out (20,060) on hand. The fans were booing Zo, the arena was full of NETS fans and not people their to see Dwane Wade. Can you tell me where these fans are now? Or the ones that were with us even when the team went to the playoffs in the 2nd round with a depleted roster and took the Cavs to 6 games..where are those fans now?

Yes we are the most loyal fans in the NBA….and I’m dating Keira Knightley…

I will never go see another game at the IZOD, but I will be a Nets fan for life!

Will never understand why people hate the Izod center so much. People act like the minute you walk in their they start punching infants in the face and defecate all over you while your sitting in your chair. I understand for some its not easy to get to, and that is understandable, but it shouldn’t make people HATE an arena for it.

The only big thing missing from this arena is separate lower and upper concourses for concessions and an updated video system. That is it. The seats aren’t more luxurious in other arena, they certainly aren’t any better at The Rock. Complain all you want about the ushers and staff but it depends who the person is anywhere you go. You could get a real A Hole at The Rock and you might at The Izod. It just life. I feel people like hopped on this “hate the arena in east rutherford” band wagon as the team started to decline the last 3 seasons. When the team was playing at the top of its game, we were proud to be known as the team from the Swamp.

Now its just like everyone feels they need to hate it because theirs a state of the art arena in Newark. Everyone is always looking for the bigger better deal. I am happy with the Izod center. I hope they spend their final seasons in NJ their.

not to nitpick, but you do also pay for service charges and shipping with stubhub. I just bought two tickets for the Knicks game on Wednesday night at $10 each, but with $5 stubhub charge and $19.95 Fed Ex overnight shipping, it comes out to $22.50 each.

@psychonetsfan34- with all due respect, IZOD fans (and maybe that includes NJ fans that would also go to the Rock) are probably less loyal to their team than fans in any other venue, and that was even the case in 2001-2005 when we were highly competitive. One thing for sure it can’t be blamed on is difficulty in getting to…….. same location as the Jets, Giants, and Devils, and all of those teams were popular.

My opinion is that the venue is extremely sterile, the sound system is shrill, and it really lacks character. But, that being said, it hasn’t stopped anybody from enjoying Springsteen shows and the like.

at psychonetsfan34:

“where are those fans now?”

Why is this so hard for so many of you to understand? The owner told the fans immediately upon purchasing the team over FIVE YEARS AGO, he had no use for them and that he would move the team as soon as he could possibly pay off enough people and get some Russian billionaire to save his failing project. The team went from a back to back NBA FINALIST when he arrived to a TWO-WIN team in late December!!!

Why would any Nets fans still go and put money in his pockets??? Getting 10,000 a night even shows you just how loyal NEW JERSEY Nets fans are.

Why is this so hard for you to process?

Yeah, and I remember when a Hershey bar was five cents…

Those who live in the past, deserve what they get.

“You can’t put your arm around a memory”

“Don’t try”…

J. Thunders… R.I.P.

So the people who came out in 2005 to sold out games like the one I spoke about against Miami, which was after Ratner purchased it…were what? Were they all kidnapped by Ratner and dragged to the arena? Give me a break. You can’t blame Ratner for people having ZERO interest in basketball in the NJ area. I hate Ratner as much as the next person but cmon you can’t blame everything on the man.

Their is ZERO respect for the game of basketball in NJ. Everyone is either a Yankees fan..Giants Fan…Devils…and than the other teams fall into place…Knicks…Mets…Jets…Nets are dead last on that list including when they went to the finals. We are in a crowded sports market where only the super strong in heritage or wins survive. After Dr.J, the NETS weren’t relevant at ALL till the early 1990’s when Petro came. Than that team came and gone and the Nets faded into obscurity until the early 2000’s.

Ratner did things to this team that tarnished the teams character no doubt about it. But to say THAT is the reason NETS fans stopped coming to games is ridiculous.

Enough with the claim that the Nets never had a fan base in NJ, because that is completely false. The problem was never the team, it was where they played, which hard to get to if you don’t drive. The teams that rank up are in good areas to get to by transit. BTW, I have been noticing that the Pistons haven’t been selling out lately and I have seen box scores where they actually had below the capacity at home. Even the Spurs and Mavs are having games where they couldn’t fill the whole place. Nevertheless, the Nets do have loyal fans. When they host the top teams, the Izod Center is almost at full capacity that doesn’t even happen at the Wachovia Center down in Philly, and I know that because I went to a Nets game there last season and the 76ers couldn’t even sell out against their rivals up the NJ Turpike. On a sidenote, why is the Liberty never included in NY sports teams when they have already been around for 13 years?

at psychonetsfan34:

“But to say THAT is the reason NETS fans stopped coming to games is ridiculous.”

It is ridiculous that you can’t comprehend the large percentage of the fan base being completely turned off once Ratner told us he was taking the teama way from us to fulfill his own greedy real estate fantasies.

The team’s popularity was at an all-time high when he bought the tean. As to your comment about people still coming in 2005 – for one thing, we still had Kidd, getting Vince brought even more people to the games and Brooklyn was still a complete pipe dream at that point.

By late 2007 when it became clear this pig Ratner wasn’t going away and the team returned to being atrocious BECAUSE of his greed, many of the longtime fans stopped coming. Have you ever heard of Jerry Capece and his pals that used to line the courtside seats??? They spent thousands of dollars on the Nets every year and made it fun – they were more involved in the games than the cheerleaders on many nights – they are all gone thanks to Ratner. And believe me, they aren’t the only ones.

It is about time you start to consider these facts.

The worst thing you can do in life, is try to predict the future. Do what you can, do what you must…But after that, all bets are off…

@ Issac

Here is the facts that I know.

1- I am a Nets fan and I am not going anywhere because some real estate mogul bought the team no matter where he decided to move it.

2- I am a NETS fan FIRST AND FOREMOST not because of the state the team plays in

People jumped on the bandwagon of this team when they were outstanding, and jumped off before the ship hit the ice berg 3 seasons ago. If you want to abandon a team because of the man who buys it. Fine. Who am I to stop you. But in my opinion that makes you no fan of this team.

I am looking towards the future. I can’t change what happened in the past. I go to the games. I spend the thousands of dollars each season to watch my team win or lose. If this team was to pack up in the middle of the night like the Colts and move, I would follow this team where ever they go. I am a fan.

im with psychonetsfan34, im sorry guys but i will follow this team to brooklyn and be proud of it. Even guys at work bug me all day long how the 2 teams i root for have a combine wins of 5 (NETS and the Tampa Bay Bucs). But it doesnt matter, im a FAN and i have always love the team, through the good times and the bad, its called commitment. And i have sincere hope we will be better, a lot better, remember it is always darkest right before the sun rises. And the sun will RISE my fellow net fans IT WILL RISE!

i just wished mgmt rebuilt right away instead of this per year unloading :( we shoulda unloaded all our talent right after trading kidd :/

I’m just tired of hearing people whine so much about “Oh Ratner did this…and Oh Ratner did that and oh this management doesn’t care about us..blah blah blah” Like really management on all teams do stupid stuff. Its life. People aren’t going to do everything according to your views. So what your going to just walk away from the team? I mean fine if you want to that all good. But don’t come on here and preach about how you wont give another cent to the team until they do this or do that. If you REALLY didn’t care about the team you wouldn’t be on here all the time talking about the management.

Its all good though cause I know where I stand when it comes to the NETS. It’s making my nickname PSYCHONETSFAN in everything I do. Its have #1NETSFAN license plate behind my car window. Its my NETS car flag. Its rocking jerseys when I go out. Its being a diehard fan. Quit on the team if you want to, and make excuses about the team quitting on you and stuff and blah blah blah…man up and be a NETS FAN!

LETS GO NETS!

I for one am a loyal fan to the Nets, but I am against them moving to Brooklyn. As I have said before, most of those long time Knicks fans there won’t convert to the Nets just because they move there. The Knicks even have a practice facility in Marine Park around Floyd Bennett Field along with the Rangers and [yes] the Liberty. The way I have always seen it, pretty much the entire city and LI is devoted to the Knicks, while northern NJ and parts of the Hudson Valley is for the Nets, though it’s tossup for Westchester County, where I live. For the record, I was a fan of the Nets even before they were in the NBA Finals. I can still remember when some rubbed into my face after the 1994 Eastern Confrence Quarterfinals of how the Knicks beat the Nets to go on. The reason I picked the Nets over the Knicks is because they had a better offense and played more like a team compared to the Knicks who were more self centered and known for defense, though they didn’t have bad players, just those who didn’t know how to play as a team. On a sidenote, don’t even get me started about the Mets, because there were many who said to me this, “Your Nets and Mets and Mets suck!” Meanwhile, others, mainly Yankees fans, used the Mets as an acronym for “My Entire Team Sucks”, though you can also insult NYC by making fun of the Mets by saying “My Enter Town Sucks”, which was probably said by Phillies fans.

Why do you think being a fan is such a noble thing? It’s a commitment without risk. You have very little invested, and basically no danger of being spurned or rejected.

pyschonetsfan34:

you are a big Nets fan and that’s great. Just wish you and some others on here would put that passion towards letting ownership that we don’t appreciate being treated like trash for the past five years. You may think the move to Brooklyn makes sense, but I am wondering why? What made you become a New Jersey Nets fan in the first place? They will never be the same team with the same fans if the move to Brooklyn happens. It will become a Jr. version of the Knicks – a wannabee New York corporate team -totally different than the community team it is today. That is what I love about the Nets and Islanders – the last five years under Ratner have had a big dark cloud covering the arena. He and Yormark have continually spit on the true fans of this team. If only you and several others could at least come to grips with that.

Why can’t they just move the team in newark? Hope that brooklyn thing goes down. I,d love for this team to stay here in nj. Especially in newark. Prudential center is about 2-3 blocks away from the path train.

I was at Sat, nights game with help of Stub hub. I paid $25 each for 2 seats in section 2 row Q. Otherwise I usually use the ez pass discounts on the web to get lower level seats for cheap.
 The fact that the Nets have been down and out lately, has certainly helped fans like me get better seats than what I used to get with 7 or 10 game plans for less

I’m from Connecticut and I rarely attend games but I watch everyone of them on TV……I was also a Fan of the New York Nets in the ABA….Even if they moved cross country I would still be a fan of the Nets….Now , I am not taking any sides and I am definitely not a fan of Ratners but didn’t the State of New Jersey have alot of time and chances to keep the NJ Nets as their home state team ???? I don’t know the answer and I would appreciate hearing some , if any , facts behind this…Thank You…..

no NetFan48- New Jersey was never really given a fair chance. While I am a fan of the Meadowlands, many Nets fans clearly are not. Well there is a brand new arena waiting for the team in Newark with public transportation access, the modern amenities many of today’s fans crave while at a game not to mention pre-game and post-game dining and drinking options nearby. But instead of making a permanent move there when the Devils did to give the team a real chance at gaining the fan support in New Jersey that was waiting to happen for a Jason Kidd-led team, this snake Ratner kept on pushing for Brooklyn while alienating most of the team’s long-time fans.

So to answer your question – NO, New Jersey was not given a fair chance to support the Nets.

Of course, with the publishing of this article, demand for the cheap seats will increase and drive the prices up a bit. Basic economics 101.

To add to Issac’s point, the newly opened train station at the Meadowlands will not stop for Nets games durring the week. This would have been a great way to help those attend games there who didn’t have cars, plus give them another option besides the buses. I don’t know why NJ Transit didn’t want to do that. Even having them in Newark would give them the option of using mass transit as well because of Newark-Penn Station being nearby, which is regarded as a major transit hub not just for Newark, but also for the rest of NJ when it comes to transit. The Prudential Center is even near major highways such as the I-78 and NJ 21, so the traffic would just be residual compared to where it would be in Brooklyn being that the interesection of Atlantic and Flatbush Avenues are nowhere near the BQE. I know this from comming down Flatbush Avenue via the Manhattan Bridge and it’s not for almost another 20 blocks, though it’s not officially called Flatbush Avenue until after Fulton Street where it takes the name Flatbush Avenue Extension because nobody wanted to renumber the places there. The same with where you could get into from the Atlantic Avenue exit from the BQE as well. BTW, don’t bring up the same could go for MSG because it’s actually four blocks in from the West Side Highway (NY 9A) and right by the Lincoln Tunnel, so it is near major highways just like Yankee Stadium II and Citifield are.

@ Tal & Issac
 NJ transit like everyone else looks at the dollars and cents in the matter. If Xanadu were up and running they’d be able to provide daily usage to the station due the potential passenger volume. However with Xanadu, deader than a door nail, (even more so after what I heard from friend last week) NJ transit will content for now with service for football games.
 Having just used it for the first time myself from Seacaus yesterday. It’s great way to get to and from the game. but too little too late I guess.