<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE </div><div class='quotemain'>Booker attempts to woo new-look Nets by joe brescia / metro new york > email this to a friend JUN 30, 2008 NBA. When Newark Mayor Cory Booker welcomed Bruce Springsteen, Gen. Norman Schwarzkopf, Yogi Berra and others into the New Jersey Hall of Fame weeks before the NBA draft, Booker said he hoped to welcome another group of athletes to town in the near future: the Nets. Booker is trying to help Jeffrey Vanderbeek, the owner of the Devils, assemble investors to purchase the team. Bruce Ratner, the Nets’ principal owner, has denied reports that he is interested in selling the team or moving it to Newark. Booker, though, says otherwise. “I’m going to work very hard to make it happen,” Booker says. If the deal were to go through, the team would play at the Prudential Center, the newly built Devils’ home arena. Both teams played at the Izod Center, the former Continental Arena, in East Rutherford, N.J., before the Devils moved to the new facility in Newark last season. “I don’t think there’s going to be a fight,” Mr. Booker said. “I think it’s going to be settled in an amicable way.” He sees the Nets as a centerpiece to the continued revitalization of the city. “The Nets were made for Newark,” he said. “It’s the comeback city. And I think the Nets will be the comeback team in the NBA, and they should do it here.” Construction on the proposed new home for the Nets in Brooklyn, Barclays Center, is supposed to start at the end of the year. However, the project, part of the Atlantic Yards complex, might be subject to construction delays. The Nets shook up their roster Thursday by selecting Stanford center Brook Lopez in the draft and trading Richard Jefferson to Milwaukee for 2007 first-round pick Yi Jianlian. “I thought they were moving to Brooklyn,” Lopez said. “Wherever we are, we’ve made moves to be contenders.”</div> Link
If all this Brooklyn stuff gets built and everything and we end up playin at Newark I'm gonna be so pissed and then end up laughing.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (J-HoAgZ @ Jun 30 2008, 07:32 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>If all this Brooklyn stuff gets built and everything and we end up playin at Newark I'm gonna be so pissed and then end up laughing.</div> It will happen. Money drives political decisions, which is one major reason why eminent domain for private enterprise is wrong.
