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JohnWallace44
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12/14/2010  7:11 PM

There are signs the New Jersey Nets are considering renaming themselves the "Brooklyn New Yorkers" in two years when they move from Jersey to the NYC metropolitan area, and we just can't help but wonder if the Nets, or New Yorkers, are a lot better than this.

Two Philadelphia lawyers have filed for trademark protection for the name, along with three possible logos.

NetsDaily did a little digging, and this is what it came up with:
The logos, more concepts than finished drawings, make it clear the trademarks are for a Brooklyn basketball team. In one, a basketball player straddles the Brooklyn Bridge. In another, the words, "Brooklyn New Yorkers" fronts a basketball featuring a world map while in a third, another version of "Brooklyn New Yorkers" is imposed on a basketball. The Patent and Trademark Office continues to review the applications.

The decision to seek trademark protection around the time the team informed the NBA it would be changing its name from the "New Jersey Nets". The NBA requires a team to file two years prior to a name change but it does not require a team to state what the new name will be. Under an agreement with the Empire State Development Corp., the Nets' new name must include either "Brooklyn" or "New York" in its name.

This is where I have to remind you that the Nets are under no obligation to change their name, because they've been the New York Nets before. The franchise was originally an ABA team that played out in Long Island, named the "Nets" so as to fit in with the already-established New York Jets, and New York Mets. "Nets" never was, and doesn't have to be, a Jersey thing.

So there's really nothing wrong with the Brooklyn Nets, decision-makers. The "Brooklyn" lettering in the proposed logo is pretty cool, it looks like the sort of tagging you see on a subway car, but the "Brooklyn New Yorkers?"

Alan Hahn: Nate Robinson has been on a ridonkulous scoring tear lately (remember when he couldn't hit Jerome James with a Big Mac in early January?)
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BasketballJones
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12/14/2010  7:13 PM
How about "The New York Americans"?
https:// It's not so hard.
BlueSeats
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12/14/2010  7:17 PM
that is one ****ty name
fitzfarm
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12/14/2010  7:26 PM
seriously worst basketball name.... they got to come up with something better then that.
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12/14/2010  7:28 PM
or not haha.... they'll never win NYC ever....NYK for life
TMS
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12/14/2010  7:41 PM
i think the Brooklyn Ballers would be much better.
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JohnWallace44
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12/14/2010  7:50 PM
Brooklyn Express, Brooklyn Rails, Brooklyn Sound, Brooklyn Underground, Brooklyn Empire

How hard is it to come up with a better name than Brooklyn New Yorkers?

Alan Hahn: Nate Robinson has been on a ridonkulous scoring tear lately (remember when he couldn't hit Jerome James with a Big Mac in early January?)
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12/14/2010  8:04 PM
Brooklyn Deckers?

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12/14/2010  8:28 PM
TMS wrote:i think the Brooklyn Ballers would be much better.

I think that name is great.. would almost make me like the team
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12/14/2010  8:30 PM    LAST EDITED: 12/14/2010  8:31 PM
matt wrote:
TMS wrote:i think the Brooklyn Ballers would be much better.

I think that name is great.. would almost make me like the team

this could be their theme song

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12/14/2010  8:52 PM    LAST EDITED: 12/14/2010  8:52 PM
TMS wrote:
matt wrote:
TMS wrote:i think the Brooklyn Ballers would be much better.

I think that name is great.. would almost make me like the team

this could be their theme song

No and no, and no, still.

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12/15/2010  1:13 AM
Its King county should be Brooklyn Kings but cant happen cause name is taken....

I say Brooklyn Knights !

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12/15/2010  1:19 AM    LAST EDITED: 12/15/2010  1:23 AM
Brooklyn Junior Mafias. In respect to Biggy. Or the Brooklyn Fulton Mallers sounds good too.
I don't care what people think. People are stupid. - Charles Barkley
umynot
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12/15/2010  1:49 AM
toodarkmark wrote:Brooklyn Junior Mafias. In respect to Biggy. Or the Brooklyn Fulton Mallers sounds good too.

Not on Fulton st though...... I had a place on Fulton years back 667 and 669 Fulton st

Alexis Cafe and Sparta Restaurant

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12/15/2010  1:59 AM
toodarkmark wrote:Brooklyn Junior Mafias. In respect to Biggy. Or the Brooklyn Fulton Mallers sounds good too.

It just me ...The B I G .... Competition repper ever since 13
Loser said I was considered a thief........ Until I started hustling on Fulton st
Making loot knocking boots on the regalar.......Past the mike im the perfect competitor!
Jewels are all that..... Clothes are are all that. .... But once u stepped to me thats where u took your fall at!
B I G without my burner?.... Thats unheard of.... I stay close to mine like Ike on Turner

..... Word to mother.... I love ya..... Cause I'm above ya..... Cuase you a sweet bitch

A crazy crab that make make my dikc itch!!

Biggie was and is the MAN!!

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12/15/2010  2:02 AM
Brooklyn New Yorkers is the worst name in basketball history...Brooklyn Bums...mascot could be Ashy Larry from Dave Chapelle show.
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