cheers wrote:brooklyn is an important borough, brooklyn alone will give the nets A fanbase it never had in new jersey.

the Clippers play in the SAME ARENA as the Lakers and will always be also rans. no one cares about these teams. the Nyets drew 1000 fans in the dead of winter last year. that's sad. that probably won't happen in Brooklyn, but they'll never eclipse the Knicks in terms of fan attention.

Allanfan20 wrote:I'm still curious about what fans the Nets will be gaining when they move to Brooklyn.

cheers wrote:brooklyn is an important borough, brooklyn alone will give the nets the fanbase it never had in new jersey.

I can see more teams coming to Brooklyn as well..... Baseball for sure could use a BROOKLYN team!!

Like those who thing the Nets past is extropolated to the future.

First off the Lakers are perhaps along with the Celtics the most successful franchise.

Hands down the most in the last 20 years. Knicks don' thave that kind of hold on NYers.

Second is Clipps have been owned by the same fool. That fool actually paid off his debt and owns the team outright and actually makes money. As a fan one don't care but a fool that makes money is better than a fool who loses.

Nets are like an expansion team when they come to brooklyn. They suck. There fans were never bound to them in Jersey and the success they had has really waned. If they become a winning franchise then people will take interest. They will build support in NY. THere is a whole generation who think the knicks are losers and were not alive when the golden era of the 1990's was in play. They are free agents. Not old school who have knicks in their hearts from the true golden era of 1969-1974.

Long Island has how many people? QUeens? Brooklyn? How many people around the country can lay claim to some Brooklyn ties? Russias team also.

If they beocme formatable.

New ownership with cap space and draft picks can't hurt. Panicking to starphuck could.

"NETS SUCK AND ALWAYS WILL" is foolish. They Suck now, but don't be stupid to think it stays that way cuz of the past.

If you go on that basis, so do we!

I'm really interested in what the Nets do. Do they embrace a Brooklyn identity? Or do they become co-clamaints to the name "New York"?

I think that they'll do the latter because hell, I can imagine down the BQE in Queens there folks who wouldn't support them because they are BK haters. But they might join Brooklyn Industries, Brooklyn Brewery, and Brooklyn Decker and bank on the marketing sizzle of that name.

Even if they do become the New York Something-or-other, you know they'll have a Brooklyn alternate jersey, and as long as they don't make it tie-dye, you'll probably see those jerseys more than a Knicks jersey.

As for ownership, I like theirs better than ours. But I haven't seen Dolan jetski.

crzymdups wrote:i think they'll always be also rans. they're moving into a knicks neighborhood. fans there will still be knicks fans - MSG is still on TV and the Garden is a half hour away from Brooklyn on the subway.

the Clippers play in the SAME ARENA as the Lakers and will always be also rans. no one cares about these teams. the Nyets drew 1000 fans in the dead of winter last year. that's sad. that probably won't happen in Brooklyn, but they'll never eclipse the Knicks in terms of fan attention.

I agree, and I don't agree.

In the near term, there's no way the Nyets will draw a fan base comprised of NYK fans. But down the road, if the Knicks don't build a title contender and the Nyets do, then I could see in ten or fifteen years the Nyets becoming the new top team in NYC. Ditto for LA. But I am talking down the road and after a monumental turn of events.

Of course, the chances of all of that happening are basically nill.