For me, it was growing up living in New York and having a seething hatred for the Knicks. The Nets were on TV all the time and I just knew that was the team for me. Kevin Edwards and PJ Brown got me hooked.
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<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (GMJigga @ Jul 23 2008, 01:07 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>Lucious Harris' facemask.</div>
rod thorn signin... haha nah actually to be honest it was kenny anderson cuz i loved his childhood stories ahha
The Nets are one of my father's clients so he had to own season tickets. Didn't consider myself an actual fan until VC came.
i loved dr.j and jason kidd i loved him on the nets but when he got traded i just stuck with nets kidd to K-mart best thing in the world
I actually started being a fan during the Stephon Marbury error. I Loved Marbury on the Nets and was actually very angry when they traded him. my second favorite player was Keith Van Horn. Never really liked K-mart and lost a lot of respect when he called KVH soft after the championship. The next year it was MArtin's fault they lost agaisnt the Spurs. Byron Scott was a great coach who really changed the Nets. I liked Kidd but too bad lately I only have bad memories of him. He was great especially in the years they went to the finals. I watched Jefferson and develop and I watched Jason Collins pile of minutes. I love the Nets announcers over the years on T.V and radio. Ian Eagle is so underated by the way. Kristic I always knew was going to be good, looks like his career is over though. I have a lot of great memories of the Nets. I'm probably the only one who really enjoyed the Stephon Marbury era.
I root for New Jersey. When I was a little kid the only team called "New Jersey" was the Nets. My father was a huge sports fan and he followed the Nets, but he was much more concerned with hockey. We watched every single Rangers game - and later the Devils, and if the Nets were on free TV we'd catch an occasional game here and there. I think I was more into it than he was. Some of those Nets teams took a lot of commitment to watch. We actually talked about the NBA more than we watched it. (Maybe that's why I still think hoops is the best sport to read about and talk about.) I didn't go to too many games, but I did get to see Dr. J's jersey retirement game. (Which was just a happy accident, I'm sure.) I thought it was funny because I was very young and I only knew him as a 76er. They gave out a poster of him standing by a Roman-style pillar that said "All Hail Julius". I hung it in my room. It was the first "enemy" player I ever even considered putting up on my wall. It kind of changed my thinking a bit. I could like players on other teams. Cool! (That thinking led to three things that followed me throughout college - a purple Dan Majerle signature Phoenix Suns cap I ordered off the back of a Tony's Pizza box, A Sacramento Kings cap that most people in South Carolina assumed represented a USFL team or something, and a four foot poster of Patrick Ewing with 3-D sweat so real I always had to resist the urge to towel off the rug underneath it.) What's strange is that as I got older, I enjoyed watching Nets games more and more while my interest in other sports either stayed the same or declined a bit. I think not being a junkie at seven years old (like with hockey and football and baseball) made it more satisfying somehow. (Believe it or not, I'm starting to feel that way about College Football right now. It's kind of neat how these things evolve.) When I was a kid, the Nets were mediocre. Buck Williams was the perennial All-Star representative. He was a class act and an easy guy to root for - a great role model. Unfortunately, he wasn't the most exciting player in the world. The Nets' most exciting player was Micheal Ray Richardson (sic), who even then I knew was the opposite of a great role model. They also had the G-Man, Chocolate Thunder, Otis and Albert. They even drafted my favorite college player of all time - Pearl Washington (!) - who turned out to be a terrible pro. Then things went straight downhill and, IMO, didn't get better until 2001.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (kk30 @ Jul 23 2008, 06:40 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>I actually started being a fan during the Stephon Marbury error. I Loved Marbury on the Nets and was actually very angry when they traded him. my second favorite player was Keith Van Horn. Never really liked K-mart and lost a lot of respect when he called KVH soft after the championship. The next year it was MArtin's fault they lost agaisnt the Spurs. Byron Scott was a great coach who really changed the Nets. I liked Kidd but too bad lately I only have bad memories of him. He was great especially in the years they went to the finals. I watched Jefferson and develop and I watched Jason Collins pile of minutes. I love the Nets announcers over the years on T.V and radio. Ian Eagle is so underated by the way. Kristic I always knew was going to be good, looks like his career is over though. I have a lot of great memories of the Nets. I'm probably the only one who really enjoyed the Stephon Marbury era.</div> What did you like about the Marbury era?
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (kdub @ Jul 23 2008, 05:14 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>Ryan Anderson... I mean, Vince Carter </div> LOL.
Because my teacher is a Nets fan，so.....but i think there is no reason，love the Nets need no reason，hehe。
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (#1_War_Poet_ForLife @ Jul 23 2008, 07:53 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>Derrick Coleman and Stephon Marbury. I love to watch the game played with heart and youthieness.</div> not sam cassel?!?!
Quite simply... Yi Jianlian! I think many Chinese fans will now watch the Nets because of this player. Probably taken into account when New Jersey acquired him!
