If you want to propose to the love of your life on the big board at Barclays, it will cost you $500, donated to the Nets Foundation. Marriage proposals are part of new menu for messages on the Daktronics scoreboard. Best wishes and Good Luck!
Overnight Thursday, construction crews put up a fence along the back (Dean Street) of Barclays Center, signaling the start of construction on the first of three towers at the eastern end of the arena. Expect narrow sidewalks on Dean.
It's a 24 minute documentary made famous by an encounter Jay-Z has while encouraging fans to use the subway to get to Barclays Center. But the same documentary talks about how he got involved with the Nets and who's mainly responsible of it all.
Starting Friday night, Nets fans living in New Jersey will be able to board buses in Paramus for Barclays Center. Best Trails, who provides the Nets with charter services is running the round trip service. Cost is $20 round trip. Buses leave at 5:15
Ever wonder just how big are those giant HDTV screens at Barclays Center? A feature in Sports Business Journal is chockful of that kind of data. For the record, each of the four screens are 16 feet by 27 feet or 432 square feet. And that's not all.
They pay attention to the news in Milwaukee. As the Nets were beating the Celtics, the Knicks were playing the Bucks in Milwaukee and as Tyson Chandler stepped to the line in the first quarter, what did he hear from the fans? "Brooklyn's Better!"
High about it all in a corner of the Barclays Center, a group of 20 or so NetsDaily posters gathered, dressed in black and white for the occasion, chanting "A-A-R-P" and "Fake New Yorker" and oh that inspirational, monotonic, rhythmic "Brook-Lyn!"
Bobby Edemeka is a new Nets fan. On Friday night, he invited 20 NetsDaily posters to sit with him in Section 3 at his expense, mid four-figures expense. He chose well. They started the "Over-rated" chant that apparently rattled Blake Griffin.
We take a look at what we've seen and appreciated at Barclays Center in the two months since it's been open, from the "oculus" to the urban feel of the arena. Suffice it to say, we like it a lot and that as time passes, more and more will as well.
"Deez Nets" gear was on sale at Barclays Center for a day. BrooklynFans, the video-based website says they were, then removed. Indeed they were removed, apparently because the gear is based on "Deez Nuts" a raunchy Dr. Dre rap from 1992.
