It's time to bring the Nets to Newark

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First Cup: Friday
Published 5/2/2008 at ESPN.com - True Hoop - Blog
... Barring the unforeseen, the payroll will continue to soar. Counting Iverson, the Nuggets will have eight players with guaranteed contracts next season totaling more than $78 million. Because they want to keep restricted free-agent guard J.R. Smith, need help at point guard, have the No. 20 draft pick and must have at least 13 players on the roster, they're staring at a payroll approaching $90 million, which would be about $20 million over the projected tax threshold for 2008-09." ...

About That Nets Arena In Brooklyn…
Published 5/5/2008 by David Roth at Can't Stop The Bleeding
... And if it doesn’t happen? Ratner has never made any pretense of caring much about basketball, and you know the guy hates going out to New Jersey to watch Josh Boone miss foul shots. Steve Politi of the Newark Star-Ledger (not, sadly, the Daily News) sums up Ratner’s predicament: ...