I'm from Jersey and it seems like New York takes everything from us! The new York Giants and Jets don't even play in New York, but they have NY's name...What's next the Manhatten Devils?!
2006-12-21 14:34:56 · 12 answers · asked by curious 2 in Sports ➔ Basketball
No WAY! The Nets Are fine....besides NY has enough teams already
2006-12-21 14:38:15 · answer #1 · answered by Bronco3344 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yea its good but for what happened in 2004 is bad when after failing to secure a deal for a new arena in Newark, New Jersey, Yankee Nets sold the franchise to a group headed by real estate developer Bruce Ratner for $300 million. In 2005 the Nets announced plans to move the team back to New York, this time locating the team in the Prospect Heights neighborhood of Brooklyn. The Brooklyn Nets Arena is the center of an extensive redevelopment project in Atlantic Yards being built by Ratner's real estate development company. The site of the arena is nearby to the site that Walter O'Malley wanted to use for a new stadium for the Brooklyn Dodgers in the early 1950s. The plan was rejected and resulted in the team's relocation to Los Angeles in 1958. The Nets would be the first major professional sports team to play their games in Brooklyn since the departure of the Dodgers. This would leave New Jersey with the Devils of hockey, the New York Red Bulls of soccer, as well as the NFL's New York Giants and New York Jets as the state's major league professional sports teams. The arena is in the final planning stages and if approved, the Nets would move across the Hudson River for the 2008-09 season. However, delays in the project make a move in 2008 unlikely. In September of 2006, the team and the New Jersey Sports and Exposition Authority are announced an extension of their lease to keep the team in the Meadowlands until 2013, with a provision to leave as early as 2009 if the Brooklyn arena is completed. In the event the Brooklyn arena project is rejected, the Star-Ledger article stated that Net management has indicated that staying in the Meadowlands is their top alternative to the Brooklyn arena. The New Jersey Devils (who share CAA with the Nets), however, have an open invitation for the Nets to move to their Newark Arena, currently under construction. New Jersey state officials have called to close the Continental Arena once the Newark Arena opens, but with the Nets' extension, that is unlikely. If the Nets ultimately do not move to Brooklyn, it is unknown if Ratner would continue to own the team in New Jersey or put the team up for sale, since the arena project was the main reason he bought the team. Alternative possibilities discussed in the past include the Nets playing their home games at Madison Square Garden or returning to Long Island to share a new or refurbished arena with the New York Islanders.
2006-12-22 21:51:52 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
A move will be great for the city of NY..especially from a financial stand point. Look at the storied history Brooklyn teams have! Its puttin NY back in the mix! And NY teams aren't doing to hot! Jersey has nothing to offer and avid fan...besides my personal favs the DEVILS!!! Jers is dead, NY needs the Nets!!
2006-12-21 22:43:14 · answer #3 · answered by OPTIMUS DIME 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The New Jersey Nets should be moved to brooklyn. Eventhough i am a huge knicks fan people are tired of seeing loss after loss. Bringing the nets to brooklyn will provide a new energy to the borough of brooklyn as well as the city of new york. and plus vince carter is on the nets, who doesn't want to watch him
2006-12-22 00:23:40 · answer #4 · answered by rjjr927 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No but Brooklyn should get their own team. New York is starting to hate the nicks and needs a team to root for.
Can you say Brooklyn Brawlers
2006-12-21 22:37:57 · answer #5 · answered by stricklins 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well I think they could get bigger crowds by being in Brooklyn but i think NJ should have a team NY already has a lot.
2006-12-21 22:38:29 · answer #6 · answered by Jack NYY #1 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
im with u the jest and the giants should be ours and the nj nets sounds so much better that the brooklyn nets. its because of stupid jay z. and the devils better stay hear
2006-12-21 22:38:01 · answer #7 · answered by Mel720 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
They are going to take the Sopranos next.
2006-12-22 15:32:39 · answer #8 · answered by smitty 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I dont really give a ****...if they do move still wont win a ship
2006-12-22 00:38:13 · answer #9 · answered by sandridge_soldier09 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No but they should go after KG. They would be unstoppable!!!
2006-12-21 23:59:54 · answer #10 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋