I am probably the longest tenured Nets fan you will find......that's not bragging....it's the simple truth.....I was at the first game back in 1967 ( as a 4 year old but still...) in the Teaneck Armory....I was there because my father and grandfather were officers in the Teaneck Fire Dept and current laws mandated that a fire truck be there for any event expected to attract more than 500 people to the building ( it attracted slightly more than 3,000 fans )..... I followed the team to Long Island....to Piscataway....to the Meadowlands ...to Newark...etc.....I was a season ticket holder for 17 years......I've been to the first and last game at each location ...and I damn sure will be at the first game in Brooklyn.... What concerns me is simple. For years , we complained in the Meadowlands that we had no home court advantage...and that we were the ugly step sister to the Knicks....that has all changed with the move to Brooklyn...I'm not going to lie, I absolutely HATED the idea of moving to Brooklyn because it is going to be so much more difficult for me to get to a game than anything in NJ.....BUT.....this is still a GREAT move for the franchise.....a move that had to be made for us to ever be relevant in this market place... Having said that.....the first game is absolutely HUGE....Nets fans everywhere....Brooklyn fans everywhere....Knicks haters even....need to come out for that first game and make sure we have a home court advantage....no more second fiddle to the Knicks....NBA Basketball in the NY metro area means the Brooklyn Nets..... I personally will be there to cheer on the Nets.....hopefully ALL Nets fans will be too !!.....LOUD AND PROUD IN BROOKLYN ON NOVEMBER 1ST !!!
I remember when the Nets were an ABA team and played in NYC. Dr J and the championships. When the ABA and NBA merged, the Knicks ownership required the Nets to move out of the city so they'd have no competition for ticket sales and other merchandise sales. It's interesting to me that the league would now allow the Nets to move back.
I was a fan of the ABA, Followed most teams because I was born and raised in Southern Indiana and we had the Pacers and Colonels. Listened to both on the radio. Nets were good. Ya that will be a hell of a first game this upcoming season.
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Actually...the league didn't allow it.....the Knicks themselves allowed....see the accompanying article.....great read....and nice to see how stupid the Knicks management really is...and just how dumb they really are..... http://blog.northjersey.com/meadowlandsmatters/3224/the-art-of-the-deal-1990s-nets-knicks-chapter/
Nets will begin to dominate NY basketball again. ATM we are doing everything right, while the Knicks continue to fail. 13 seasons and counting... It amazes me Dolan hasn't been run out of town yet.
Amazes me too Vinyard. I really like what the Nets have done. Also I respect what they tried to do about Howard as well. They still might get him!
Sorry, but Nets's home (while an actual on-court team) has never been NYC prior to this coming All Saints Day. And there is a story from back in 1996, from what I've been led to understand, where a deal was struck that allowed Nets to move into NYC.
Is Uniondale New York in New York? That's where the ABA New York Nets played. I'm not big on the geography there, but I thought Long Island is New York and at least considered a suburb of the city.
here is the "story" - as posted on Nets Daily http://www.netsdaily.com/2012/7/25/3180962/how-the-nets-stole-brooklyn#storyjump
