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Ian T. Shearn/The Star-Ledger The owner of the Devils hockey team and Newark Mayor Cory Booker are seeking to assemble a group of investors to buy the Nets and move the basketball team to Newark, according to people familiar with the effort. In recent weeks, Devils owner Jeffrey Vanderbeek has met with Nets owner Bruce Ratner, while Booker has spoken to an official at Ratner's development ... [link]

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Newark forces ponder assembling Nets bid
Published 5/1/2008 by Neil Best at Watchdog
... Whoa, the Devils' owner and the Newark mayor are trying to get together a group to buy the Nets? And move them into the Prudential Center? ...

Giving Them The Business!
Published 5/3/2008 by emmettjones at Sports Business Digest
“Giving Them The Business” is the “sort of” daily link dump for Sports Business Digest. Read and Enjoy. Phoenix Suns and Epic Records join forces to…uh, play music on the Suns Website. Jay-Z is about to make a diss record about the New Jersey Devils Owners. Just watch. How do you make that Rob Lowe/Nanny story even more strange? Throw in some Dale Davis and his nether regions. Applebees and Turner Sports join forces to make commercials about baseball. ...

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