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Plan to Move Nets Garners Some Support
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NEW YORK - Brooklyn basketball greats including Connie Hawkins and World B. Free joined real estate developer Bruce Ratner on Tuesday to support his bid to buy the New Jersey Nets and move them across the Hudson and East rivers.
"Brooklyn Nets! Let's go!" said Free, who grew up in the borough's Brownsville neighborhood before going on to a 13-year NBA career.
Tuesday's news conference at a restaurant near the site of the proposed Nets arena was long on Brooklyn pride and short on details.
"We're going to fulfill the dream of all Brooklynites and build an arena for the great champions, the Brooklyn Nets!" said a star-struck Ratner after trading his conservative suit jacket for Free's flashier duds.
Albert King, who grew up in Brooklyn's Fort Greene neighborhood and played for the Nets, added, "I would love to be able to come across that Brooklyn Bridge, head on over here and watch a game of the Brooklyn Nets."
Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz invoked the borough's abandonment by baseball's Dodgers, who decamped for Los Angeles in 1958.
"As a 12-year-old I cried like a baby when the Brooklyn Dodgers left us for La-La-Land," Markowitz said. "Now at 58 years of age I can't wait to shed tears of joy. Joy because I predict that the Brooklyn Nets will be the most successful basketball team in the NBA."
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10-14-2003, 03:28 PM
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I'll admit, Brooklyn Nets has a ring to it.
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10-14-2003, 03:59 PM
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I'll admit, Brooklyn Nets has a ring to it.
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not really...i like the sound of "new jersey nets" better. although it is interesting that frank gehry might design the arena if the nets do move.
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I like NJ Nets the best too, but if they are going to move...Brooklyn is at least tolerable.
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I like NJ Nets the best too, but if they are going to move...Brooklyn is at least tolerable.
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true. plus they'll be playing at about a 15-20 minute walk from my school.
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true. plus they'll be playing at about a 15-20 minute walk from my school.
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youl'll have to be in school for atleast 3 more years for that to
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Well at least they can drop some Brooklyn samples when they want to get the team to rally, I mean there must be at least 100 songs with a brooklyn shout-out...
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Shouldn't people looking to buy them first contract the Knicks about getting further into their territory and what they would want in return as payment?
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youl'll have to be in school for atleast 3 more years for that to
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oh man, i wouldn't want that. 
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