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“We specifically wanted to make you feel bad.”

Young Jarrett Allen and Caris Levert actually performing too

Those $15 tickets made me a fan, unfortunately.

They built Barclays down the street from my apartment when I was living in Prospect. Could get lower bowl for \(50-75 last minute most games. Hell, think I only paid \)100 or so for their playoff series against Chicago. It was awesome (long as you didn’t care about the Nets doing well). Stackhouse also finished his career there, which was cool to me.

Or they are from Brooklyn and don’t care about basketball

Or they are my dad who was born and raised in Brooklyn and when the long island nets moved to the city in 1968 he became a fan. And then passed that down to his son who he raised in rocky mountains.

I coulda been a nuggets fan, I coulda been happy.

Worse, imaging growing up same timeframe as you (but in Queens instead of NJ) and picking the Nets cuz that team was better and much more exciting than the Knicks during that time. Who’s laughing now?? 😭

Yeah I imagine in Jersey theres a good chunk of Nets fans like yourselves. But by moving back and forth they seem to have really just alienated everyone instead of including everyone.

Jayz stole our team…. And my basketball fandom adrift ever since. The NJ Nets were my team, the BK Nets are not; nor did I jump on the bandwagon.

There’s way more clipper fans than nets I’m sure, its probably not close. The real nets fans are probably still in New Jersey anyway and probably a lot of them don’t follow them the same now that they are in Brooklyn. The clippers have been in LA since the early 80s, it’s not the same thing

They should just go back to jersey

It’s what happens when you leave your fanbase

Knicks fans are honestly so obsessed with saying we don’t exist. You know how many current Knicks “fans” I saw rooting for the Nets on the KD/Kyrie era? It’s laughable.

Lived in BK for 4 years and went to Barclays (because it was in walking distance) a lot. I would love for the Nets to be good. And there are fans in Brooklyn.

They need to come back to Jersey, try to establish their own actual brand instead of the Brooklyn bit.

Meadowlands Arena was a pain to get to and the Nets were awful when they were at the Rock. I think they would do marginally better in Newark and actually build up a fan base

if they were smart and put a stadium in Jersey City I think it would have a decent fanbase. The nj side of the river is growing a ton if they embedded themselves in that community people who moved into Jersey City or to the NJ side would’ve grown up with the Nets as their team plus the Knicks weren’t that good during that stretch.

The Nets should’ve relocated to a city like Baltimore, or just gone fully into Long Island instead of settling in Brooklyn.

Erik Spoelstra’s dad wrote a book “Ice to Eskimos.” The nets hired him out of retirement to run their marketing in the early 90s when they stunk. The whole marketing strategy he developed was “come see the opponents stars play in the NYC area for far less money than it costs to see them play at MSG”

Blud just wants to see topless luka

Just like NYC never will care about a vagabond team like the Nets and it’s old fans.

When the Clippers flairs are clowning a team for not having fans in their own city, that’s when you know it’s bad

I’d welcome them back, if only to have a team closer to me. I grew up loving both teams with all my heart, then got the ick when the Nets left for Brooklyn. Just felt unnecessary

Lol most people from New Jersey are knick fans too (and that was even the case when the Nets were here)

I feel like they’re better off in like Edison/Nb. It’s already got a history of having big conferences and stuff, and it’s more central for people in NJ. Putting the team where the most valuable train to an adjascent market is is kinda dumb hence why they had to move imo. If they want NJ as a market it’d need to be the midpoint between the NE and SW parts of the state.

The team would’ve had a solid fanbase rn if they built their arena in Jersey City

Mets inherited the legacy of the Brooklyn Dodgers (and New York baseball Giants to a lesser extent). Stan Lee followed the Dodgers as a kid and made Spider-Man a Mets fan because of it. Not everyone in NY was a Yankees fan before the Mets were created

Yeah that’s kinda my point I think I just worded it horribly. Three distinct locations, but because there’s two others within the hour it still creates some more competition. Like all of LI is Knicks fans but in hockey it’s split. So then all the LI -> NYC transplants are split on hockey as well

I mean Brooklyn is on Long Island, but tbf the traffic means it’s practically faster to walk there lmfao

Pretty much every seasoned Clippers fan I’ve met has an appropriate amount of self-awareness with the team; the Lakers will always be the team anyone else cares about, but we like what we have so it’s fine.

It honestly was a strategy that made sense. It would be an interesting alternate history to ponder if the Nets won the 2014 championship as the Knicks were headed towards their lowest

Seriously. They whiffed hard on that trying to be cool by using Brooklyn. If you go too specific, you run the risk of turning off fans by being exclusive. That’s why I feel like teams like the Angels or 49ers or Cowboys still use their “big city” location names despite technically not being located there. It’s more well known and i feel more inclusive (b/c most folks living in the area near a big city are already used to identifying with the big city to some extent).

There’s too many New Yorkers for their attendance to be completely bottomed out, and the tickets are cheap and easy to get. There are worse experiences than going to a Nets game, and NBA attendance in general is high rn