New Nets owner to turn team into Clippers of the East - Profit is the only priority <div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">They're creeping closer to bringing this beleaguered franchise back to the old days, when ownership was chaos, when stars were let go, when nobody knew who was coming, and who was going. Around the Nets' offices, there's a sense of impending doom. Privately, several Nets players and employees are under the impression that they're on the eve of a dismantling of the franchise's core. Thorn won't say it, but how can he? Ratner is still waiting for the NBA to rubber stamp his purchase of the franchise, so it isn't exactly wise business sense to declare your candidacy as Donald Sterling East when you're taking over the franchise once the Clippers-East. Who else in the NBA would draft Kenyon Martin with the No. 1 overall pick, develop him into an All-Star cornerstone for two Eastern Conference championships, and refuse to let Thorn match a max-out offer sheet to keep him? Who else but the Clippers. And if that happens, nobody believes Thorn will stay on the job long enough to tear down what he had worked so tirelessly to construct. If you can't pay to keep a player like that, there's no point in purchasing a team.</div> More here. This isn't good news for Nets fans, at all.
<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">Who else in the NBA would draft Kenyon Martin with the No. 1 overall pick, develop him into an All-Star cornerstone for two Eastern Conference championships, and refuse to let Thorn match a max-out offer sheet to keep him?</div> A real estated developer who's only concern is to put up an arena and some sort of an attraction for profit? Someone who seems to use the Nets as a pawn to make it all a reality?
glad i woke up to this news. well,not like it is really news. this has been said for a while and if kmart leaves,then i know it is true. i try not to believe everything in the papers because half are not true or just words put together to try and sell papers and keep jobs. i love that njnets fans invest so much into the franchise and team and when we start winning we get a cancer in our system. thanks nba for approving this.
