Nets, Devils Spend $500K To Upgrade Pru

Sports Business Journal reports that the Devils are upgrading the Prudential Center with the aim of giving the Newark arena a more Net-centric feel for NBA games.

Most notable is the development of a new premium club reserved for the Nets’ 250 courtside-seat holders, being built in an arena storage space. There's a new court, new signage and a new NBA-regulation locker room.

The improvements cost $500,000, part of which the Nets paid.

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I guess no construction has been started on a club reserved for Carmelo’s entourage.

by ispartan on Oct 4, 2010 10:04 AM EDT via mobile reply actions

Well Denver only comes here once a season...

Not often enough to build a suite for the visitor’s entourage.

by JohnFromLongIsland on Oct 4, 2010 11:25 AM EDT via mobile up reply actions 1 recs

I was under the impression....

That the Prudential Center was in the red and will be for a little bit of time now…wondering how they can afford this kind of stuff.

"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit." -Aristotle

by Tim G on Oct 4, 2010 11:54 AM EDT reply actions

Proky can

by Atronic on Oct 4, 2010 1:41 PM EDT up reply actions

just add it to their debt

by danxcr on Oct 4, 2010 4:35 PM EDT up reply actions

i wish

there were some pictures…

by danxcr on Oct 4, 2010 4:36 PM EDT reply actions

Would make sense if..........

The Nets end up staying here. Seriously, it won’t make sense to make the Prudential Center for the Nets if they are just going to end up being somewhere else about two years later such as Brooklyn. I am sure that many loyal fans will agree with me on this. There really is no point in doing this if many know that they are not staying there for long, plus it will be a waste of money.

by Tal Barzilai on Oct 4, 2010 5:20 PM EDT reply actions

I know. All that is going to happen is the media making fun of New Jersey once again. How can they expect us to fill up the arena in the midst of the moving to brooklyn?

by NJ Nets on Oct 4, 2010 5:56 PM EDT up reply actions

They needed a locker room

They also needed a court that wasn’t a college court. Teams also do what they can to take care of the big money spenders.

All of these are reasonable expenditures for two seasons worth of home games. The arena will still be able to utilize the locker room and special club long after the Nets are gone.

Please Prokhorov never again listen to the fools that told you it was a good idea to retain Rod Thorn

by cpawfan on Oct 4, 2010 8:29 PM EDT up reply actions