Next Stop Moscow
by Net Income on Oct 9, 2010 8:23 PM EDT
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The Nets were at the end of a runway at Newark Saturday evening, two and a half hours after their buzzer-beating win over the 76ers...bound for Moscow, Beijing and Guangzhou. The team's unprecedented round the world road trip will have them practice in front of 3,000 in Moscow and play against Yao Ming's Rockets before packed houses in the two Chinese cities.
More than that, the New York Times reports, the trip is a first step toward creating the Nets as a global brand. "We have been talking about the Nets being a global team, and it seems really fitting that, as the first foreign owner of an NBA franchise, their first trip should be to my country," Mikhail Prokhorov said in a statement.
Not everyone was so upbeat about the strategy. Chris Sheridan of ESPN listed a litany of complaints after watching the Nets beat the Sixers (did he stay til the end?). Posed as a letter to Carmelo Anthony, Sheridan's screed noted, among other things, Avery Johnson's suggestion that "We may even have training camp in Russia next year." To which Sheridan writes in a riposte, "Just think, 'Melo, training camp in Russia. Maybe they'll even hold it in Siberia".
- For the Nets, First Brooklyn and Then the World - Ken Belson & Jonathan Abrams - New York Times
- Dear 'Melo: A postcard from Purgatory - Chris Sheridan - ESPN New York
- Sheridan empties his notebook - Chris Sheridan - ESPN New York
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SCREW Sheridan…and we don’t want ’Melo.
"I want to win, I want the team to win and I'm in complete control."
-Coach Avery Johnson.
by Andy. on Oct 9, 2010 6:19 PM EDT reply actions 2 recs
Chris Sheridan's IQ is 37
Are you smarter than Chris Sheridan? Take the quiz at www.blixermxr.com
Me too
My response to Sheridan is a simple “No comment” because I don’t want to get fined by the league, so to speak.
Nets = Global
Knicks = Local
So let me get this Straight, Sheridan is crying because the nets arena is cold, Nets are having training camp in russia next yr probably, and there was a black what ever you want to call it covering the seats in the upperdeck?
This is Preseason and all becaue the seats in the upperdeck is covered we should all assume the nets wont have 15+ every night in a 18,000 seating arena
"Avery Johnson: Erase to Replace"
"Proky:Make Playoffs 2010-11 season"
by Wall2KingJames on Oct 9, 2010 6:50 PM EDT up reply actions
Why do these "writers" always take cheap shots at us.
What the hell did we do to them? Ugh. Sheridan is a moron.
just tweeted him. but too inappropriate to write here..lol
"I want to win, I want the team to win and I'm in complete control."
-Coach Avery Johnson.
He needs to understand that there are net fans out here just look at Netsdaily
He can’t just get away with stuff like that, I think when regular season starts arena will be filled tho.
he still owns 20% of the team
and he is going to Beijing to try to find investors for the rest of Atlantic Yards.
Hold on there, I don’t believe Ratner has ever owned 20% of the team?
by ispartan on Oct 9, 2010 8:56 PM EDT via mobile up reply actions
"I was hired to fly the plane cause I AM FLY"
Dear Sucker I Mean Met Fan
Thank you for your support if you thought this season was tough to swallow wait til next year. Thanks, The Pons.
-TheKid08
by NetsMets4Life on Oct 9, 2010 7:41 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
LMAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
#wordaapp!!
"Anthony Randolph has hall of fame skills" - GALLO!
by MrDollarBills on Oct 10, 2010 10:42 AM EDT up reply actions
I left a piece of mind on twitter for Sheridan.
I encourage others to do the same and defend the Nets.
NI
I would love to see you write up a response and manage to keep it PG.
Sheridan is such a d-bag.
Section 129 2010-2011 @ the ROCK
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dECBj-GcYGU&feature=sub
postgame if anyone wants to here
sheridan's article made me sick to my stomach.
ESPN getting worse by the second.
Dear Sucker I Mean Met Fan
Thank you for your support if you thought this season was tough to swallow wait til next year. Thanks, The Pons.
-TheKid08
It's bad for their business if Melo goes to Nets
They want stars in Manhattan, because it’s good for them (ESPN).
Nets = Global
Knicks = Local
exactly
plus, sheridans a knicks homer
Dear Sucker I Mean Met Fan
Thank you for your support if you thought this season was tough to swallow wait til next year. Thanks, The Pons.
-TheKid08
by NetsMets4Life on Oct 9, 2010 7:34 PM EDT up reply actions
Some user on ESPN posted this comment about Sheridan's article, and he's absolutely right.
This all probably stems from anger about the fact that over the last decade the Nets have been a vastly better franchise than the Knicks
Dear Sucker I Mean Met Fan
Thank you for your support if you thought this season was tough to swallow wait til next year. Thanks, The Pons.
-TheKid08
another response
Chris Sheridan, you are easily the worst writer at ESPN. Yawn…wait, wait…yawn again. Calling the Prudential Center “Purgatory” is hardly fitting, and this is the fourth preseason game at a new location, the attendance, of course, will be poor. Despite their 12-wins last season, this is a young and exciting team on the rise and you fail to recognize that. After all, only four players have returned, so the points you make are arbitrary and irrelevant in regards to both their potential and performance. They pulled off an impressive (by preseason standards) victory today within the last 15 seconds of the game, showed they have heart and stuck it out.
Anyway, I like to pose a few questions to you: A) Have you ever played basketball in either the high-school or college level, or were you one of those kids who just watched from the sidelines and pretended like they knew what was going on? B) Who put you up to writing this fantastic piece of drivel? And C) Is it possible that you could not waste my time in the future by writing another one of your (####) pieces of ‘sports-journalism?’
By the way, I’m not even a Nets fan, I just wanted to point out what garbage this is.
"I want to win, I want the team to win and I'm in complete control."
-Coach Avery Johnson.
Chris Sheridan article should have been titled:
“Dear, Melo, Pretty please with a cherry on top, PLEASE don’t go to the Nets!”
INCREDIBLY pathetic piece of journalism. Who pays this guy and WHY?
lol I'm loving it
All of the comments are negative for Sheridan, I’m sure he’s pleasantly surprised.
I was at the game, nothing was curtained off. Maybe while he was whining about the temperature he thought he saw a curtain up there. The Nets are clearly a team on the rise from last year with a completely different team. Your complaining about the PA Announcer being loud? What do you think he gets paid for? About the attendance, it was pretty decent for a preseason game that doesn’t mean much. The fans in NJ that attend the game are real fans, this isn’t LA where half the stadium is there to be seen or have no clue about the actually team. ESPN please keep this Knick Homer across the river and leave Net articles to real writers. Hell Michelle Beadle isn’t a reporter but at least she supported the team when she was here.
found this quote funny
You must not be too observant because I was there as well, and about 1/4 of the upper deck was curtained off. The upper deck section behind the 76ers Net. Even so, it was a preseason game and that looks much better than empty seats, I believe that they do this for the Seton Hall games as well. Me and my buddy also noticed that it did get noticeably colder in the 2nd half of the game, not sure why, I was wearing a tshirt and felt a bit chilly…but Sheridan is a douche so of course he is going to make it seem like it felt like the north pole. AND RAT traps? Really? You have to make a comment about rat traps? Because Im sureee that $%#$hole they call the ‘garden’ doesn’t have anyy of those right? Really getting tired of these reporters bashing the Nets because they are jealous of all the media we are getting.
by Mike LaMonica on Oct 9, 2010 10:42 PM EDT up reply actions
I thought the rat traps was for Sheridan to step inside!
I guess the trap didn’t work.
by jerry25 on Oct 10, 2010 10:03 AM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
YOUTUBE of the game winner!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HREiU3iANY4
Section 129 2010-2011 @ the ROCK
by NetsKiNG on Oct 9, 2010 7:46 PM EDT reply actions 1 recs
every video of a classic moment has commentary.
usually annoying.
Dear Sucker I Mean Met Fan
Thank you for your support if you thought this season was tough to swallow wait til next year. Thanks, The Pons.
-TheKid08
by NetsMets4Life on Oct 9, 2010 7:55 PM EDT up reply actions
niiiiice
too bad only a few fans were there to enjoy it.
Dear Sucker I Mean Met Fan
Thank you for your support if you thought this season was tough to swallow wait til next year. Thanks, The Pons.
-TheKid08
by NetsMets4Life on Oct 9, 2010 7:53 PM EDT up reply actions
LOL it looked like he got taken away by security, too...
All in attendance could’ve rushed the floor and the court still wouldn’t have been filled, now that poor guy’s gonna get banned from the stadium haha
by JohnFromLongIsland on Oct 9, 2010 8:20 PM EDT up reply actions
Can’t stop watching it!
I don’t blame the fan I wouldve done the same thing if I was that close
"I want to win, I want the team to win and I'm in complete control."
-Coach Avery Johnson.
by Andy. on Oct 9, 2010 10:48 PM EDT via mobile up reply actions
Very clever article. Funny. It is a purgatory if you think of it. Not so much for the Nets players since it is an upgrade, but for someone like Melo, it is certainly purgatory. Siberia is clever too. Look, if Melo were on the team, there would be reporters following them. I can’t believe that the NYTimes no longer cover the Nets. They cover the Devils, the Jets, Giants, the even cover the Islanders (I think), why not the Nets? Shameful how Yormack has not solved this problem! We need Melo for so many reasons beyond just what happens inside the lines and between the hoops. Its almost a new kind of joke that we are extending ourselves into Russia. Know what I mean. We are a joke after a 12 win season, and now our global exploits seem a little ridiculous. Training camp in Russia. Please. (Avery needs to shut off his PR-promo mouth and just worry about coaching.)
Finally an idiot showed up on the Sheridan article
“Ahahahaaaa Its funny cause its true”
Dear Sucker I Mean Met Fan
Thank you for your support if you thought this season was tough to swallow wait til next year. Thanks, The Pons.
-TheKid08
Cheap shot, but right about one thing
Didn’t go to the game, but if the time-out “entertainment” is the same as in past years, Sheridan has one legit point in his otherwise snide little rant. I can’t talk to my kids, I can barely hear myself think when that idiot emcee starts braying. The high volume levels and frenetic, pathetic activity in pauses in the action at Net games smacks of desperation and detracts from the experience. Go old school, yo, and keep the focus on the real entertainment: Net basketball.
by jabez on Oct 9, 2010 8:59 PM EDT reply actions 1 recs
Quick question for NI...
Does the team have a new fancy plane or any new perks now that Proky is the owner?
OMG
wat i really wanna say…..would make NI give me multiple warnings..and kick me off the site….. because every kind of word has came into my head after hearing this BS>….Chris Sheridan ?? seriously… you’re dissing the nets ?? lolzzz i find this hailarious
the guy should simply be escorted out of the building the next time he shows up
classy people like him shouldn’t be working in purogatory places.
some days ago some one reported that other players around the league and some former NETS players advised carmelo about NJ I believe its the guys on knicks payroll in the media.
If I remember right some architecture expert mentioned that no matter what changes are made in the MSG it cannot compete with Barclays, that and the blue print for greatness has scared the living daylights out of knicks, Its possible they are not sure about the count of real fans among the knicks, point is there are around 9000’s real fans of NETS not sure if there are as many knick fans once barclays is ready and if NETS happen to have the more salelable stars like melo and paul.
The fickle espn – media will s*** up to the new and happening brooklyn nets.
So basically this is just a blatant attempt at avoiding the possibility of a doomed future.
floating -fans are who fill up the rest of the stadiums
they have no idea how many – wall street is all about buying the most happening stock the guys who work there don’t associate with low lights, that is the basic fear. Before u know a company is brought to pennies same is true with the floating guys.
My Response to Sheridan (via Email)
Sheridan,
Your open letter to Carmelo was pathetic. Aren’t you supposed to be an objective journalist, as opposed to a bold faced Knick fan? Your biggest “warning” to Carmelo is that the Prudential Center is “cold”? Are you kidding me?!?
Why not mention the fact that the Nets have the richest owner in the NBA, that will spare no expense building a world class organization? Or the fact that Avery Johnson has the highest winning percentage of any active coach? Or that he’d be playing alongside a young center that many have tipped to be the next Tim Duncan? Oh, I forgot….all of those would be POSITIVES, and you only save your positive comments for the Knicks. What exactly the hell do the Knicks have to offer Carmelo anyway? A dysfunctional organization? A power forward with one eye and one knee? The privilege of playing alongside Danillo Galignari?
The fact that you had the audacity to sign your letter “espn.com” was laughable…you should have just signed it “Chris Sheridan, Madison Square Garden, while sitting on Charles Dolan’s lap”
by corey447 on Oct 9, 2010 10:29 PM EDT reply actions 2 recs
Ill respond to you as Sheridan
Why would Carmelo want to go to a team that won 12 games?
Avery had a high percentage with a team of Dirk, Terry, Dampier.
Why would Melo want to play for a rich owner when he can play in MSG? Where it isnt cold!
Haters hatin
we must be doing something right
"A little boy went out to play. When he opened his door, he saw the world. As he passed through the doorway, he caused a reflection. Evil was born. Evil was born, and followed the boy."
Seriously
Rat traps? Too loud? Too cold? WTF! Why would Carmelo care? O wait, maybe Carmelo doesn’t want to see rats to see him change or CS is mad because he is the biggest rodent out there. Too cold? I went there for the Haifa game in shorts and a T-shirt while it was raining and windy outside. Never once did I feel disturbed by the cold. Chris Sheridan has to go back to his parent’s basement and stop writing stories. Maybe he can earn an assistant editor spot at Theknicksblog.com with Tommy Dee.
~AC24
Carmelo jumping on the scorers table mid game...
Holding his shorts up and screaming EEEEEEEEEEK!!! A MOUSE!!!!! EEEEEEK!!!!
by JohnFromLongIsland on Oct 10, 2010 5:43 AM EDT via mobile up reply actions 1 recs
Chris Sheridan is an Ass Clown.
It truly is amazing how much hatred comes from all corners of ESPN towards the Nets franchise. Sheridan is a waste of life and a horrendous writer at that. The arena is cold? What on earth are you talking about? Are you seriously complaining about the temperature of a preseason basketball game? I have been to the prudential center many, many times and I have never been cold there. Nobody else seems to have that problem except for Mr. Sheridan, who felt the need to write multiple paragraphs on the topic. Nevermind speaking about the positives of a team that has improved to a 3-1 preseason record amongst a plethora of young talent and new players, right? Because that would be complimenting the Nets instead of trying to bury them under the mounds of negativity that they have already been buried under for the past year now.
And is he really complaining about the loudness of the announcer? Every arena has a loud announcer. What kind of basketball game doesn’t have a loud announcer? And why talk about the curtains being drawn over some of the upper sections…who cares? It’s a preseason game. It’s not exactly going to be a sellout.
Chris Sheridan, like essentially every other writer on ESPN, has lost my respect for being incompetent, biased and utterly useless.
"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit." -Aristotle
sheridan
if you talk to much, then don’t say we didn’t warn you…
Yikes....
The whole team is wearing the same outfit… What, did they call each other or something??
Douche chill…
by JohnFromLongIsland on Oct 10, 2010 5:44 AM EDT via mobile reply actions
Sheridan should be escorted out of the building if he ever dares to show his face
at a Nets game during the season
Honestly, I hope the Nets brass has seen this filth. And kudos to the folks that trashed him on the ESPN site. He’s too cowardly to leave any negative comments up on his twitter.
This was an obvious smear attempt that was financed by the kind folks at Cablevision.
"Anthony Randolph has hall of fame skills" - GALLO!
sheridan should go to the Nets home opener and make a report
Mike (the owner) will be there…
"Nets fans gotta think the glass is half full. too many of us look at it as half empty"
-I says
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