NetsDaily caught up with Jerry Stackhouse on the night the Nets unveiled the Brooklyn Dodgers 1955 championship banner, to talk about Jackie Robinson, the No. 42 and what to expect from the Nets in the playoffs.
Jay-Z, who joined Bruce Ratner in the original group of investors that bought the Nets a decade ago and became their iconic presence, is exchanging his role as owner for NBA agent. Adrian Wojnarowski reports Jay-Z is selling his stake in the team
Barclays Center announced Tuesday that the Islanders and the Devils will play a long-delayed preseason game next September 21 in Brooklyn. More important, there's word that the team may arrive in Brooklyn in 2014, a year earlier than planned.
The next time Saturday Night Live has Stefon look for "New York's hottest club," he should be directed to the Calvin Klein Courtside Club at Barclays Center. So says the Daily News in its story on the "hottest new scene" in New York.
The movie "42" about Jackie Robinson's first season with the Dodgers ... and what it meant to sports, the nation and the world... premieres Thursday. For Jerry Stackhouse, the movie is more than just an interesting bio-pic. It's his number, too.
Cory Treffiletti, a marketing blogger, visited Barclays Center recently when in New York. He wanted to see first hand how the arena and team were being marketed.: "While the Knicks may have a sense of history, the Nets represent a feeling of 'now'."
In his "In-Bounds" interview with Alyonka Larionov, Toko Shengelia talks about the biggest shock he had on joining the NBA: his team's togetherness. "The whole team is really together, everybody with everybody ... It was surprising to me."
If Jay-Z starts to rep NBA players in his new agency, he would have to leave the Nets ownership group. The big issue wouldn't be money, but losing their link to a "cultural icon," as the Nets refer to him ... reportedly by contract.
The Communications Workers of America is locked in a ugly dispute with James Dolan, Cablevision and now Madison Square Garden and they aim to hit him where it hurts ... in Brooklyn. The CWA is pushing Barclays Center in "union-busting" campaign.
Jay-Z announced Tuesday he's set up a sports agency and has signed Robinson Cano as its first client. Representing MLB players does not pose a conflict for the Nets minority owner, but if he branches out into NBA players, he'll have to sell out.
