The Nets MIGHT be moving to Brooklyn

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Dodgers? No Way! Brooklyn's Revival Is Betting on the Nets

By CHARLES V. BAGLI and RICHARD SANDOMIR

Published: January 16, 2004

Brooklyn (NYC)

The proposed Brooklyn arena would have 19,000 seats.

The revival of Brooklyn has been painfully slow, an effort eked out neighborhood by neighborhood, with chic new restaurants in Fort Greene, artists' lofts in Williamsburg, new businesses in industrial Red Hook and the transformation of derelict factory buildings into million-dollar condominiums in an area with the unlikely name of Dumbo.

But the prospect of a professional basketball team moving across two rivers to Brooklyn seemed, until recently, as remote as shipbuilding returning to the sprawling Brooklyn Navy Yard complex. Now, Bruce Ratner, the developer, is negotiating to buy the New Jersey Nets and install the team in a glamorous new home designed by a world-renowned architect at the corner of Flatbush and Atlantic Avenues.

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[PhiPsiRuss]

Hey, if New Jersey can't sell out games for a team that is championship caliber, and the Knicks sell out every game for a team that is pathetic, well, you do the math.

The Nets were originally the New York Nets, when they were in the ABA, and on Long Island (remember those red, white, and blue basketballs?)

Brooklyn, if it was an independent city (which it was until 1897,) would be the 4th most populous city in America. It makes sense to me.

[KSigkid]

there has been a LOT of talk about the Nets moving; it's been kind of like the rumors about the Expos moving. I'll believe it when I see it.

[AEPhiSierra]

i would love to see a major sports teams in brooklyn. its every diehard brooklynite's dream. we got a minor league baseball team a couple of years ago which was cool but an nba would be awesome. plus the stadium would really help revive what is a really akward area of downtown. its not a bad area but they still have tried to put all these stores but the area isn't designed well to support it. the stadium and the accompanying complex would definitely be good for the area.

[ADPiSAI]

take them, please.

[Buttonz]

I hate the Nets but would love to see an NBA team in Brooklyn