The Nets are thinking globally and expect to arrive in Brooklyn in 2012. In the meantime, they will be acting locally, as in Newark. And Newark is thinking about them, too, despite that temporary address. Some see it as an audition for a new NBA team in New Jersey. Others are just happy to have a team downtown.
the Nets have done pretty well this summer selling Newark. They rank in the upper third of the NBA in both new full season ticket packages and half-season packages. Now, with the season five weeks away, they're making a final push to sell Newark with an open practice on Thursday night, September 30, at the Prudential Center.
The New York Liberty will join the Nets at the Prudential Center next year, giving the state's largest city two professional basketball teams.
Who will help the Nets open the Prudential Center...and will they be among the teams playing on Christmas or Martin Luther King's birthday? The NBA will reveal its opening week Christmas and MLK Day schedules during an hour long special on NBA TV Tuesday night at 7.
Dave D'Alessandro looks at the prospects for each team seriously involved in the race for LeBron James. He doesn't think the Russian Revolution will succeed, at least with LeBron.
New Jersey's governor, Newark's mayor discuss plans to aggressively pursue a new NBA team to replace the Nets once they leave for Brooklyn...express optimism that won't happen for a while.
Our first Off-Season Report is Newark-centric, with items on The Prudential Center, some news out of Queen Latifah's movie, "Just Wright" that we think is just wrong, a draft prospect from the Brick City who's our Draft Sleeper of the Week and a suggestion for who should toss up that first ball come October.
