nydailynews.com - 10/28/2008
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New Jersey Nets principal owner Bruce Ratner met with a group of investors within the past year about possibly selling control of the basketball operations, the Daily News has learned.
andregomes.apostaganha.pt - 10/21/2008
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Is it possible for a team to enter
the 2008/2009 season already thinking more on the 2010...
season than in this season? If that’s possible, then the Nets are clearly doing that. The Nets were one of the biggest disappointments of the league last season, ending the season with a 34-48 record, when ...
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New Jersey Nets NBA Preview 2008
nba.fanhouse.com - 10/29/2008
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Yesterday morning, the Essentials pointed to a New
York Daily News report which indicated Nets controlling owner...
Bruce Ratner -- the dude building Brooklyn's monument to commerce and basketball -- might be looking to sell off his NBA team. Yahoo!'s ...
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Bids For the Nets? From Russia, With Ca$h
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Suicide lines: LBJ's motivation, AI's position, Brewer's headband ...
Ball Don't Lie —
... Frank Isola, NY Daily News: "Josh Boone participated in his first full Nets practice Monday since being sidelined with a rapid heartbeat on Oct. 17. But Boone may not start at center tommorrow night when the Nets tip off the season in Washington against the Wizards. That distinction could go to rookie big man ...
NBA Essentials: Holy Opening Day, Batman!
FanHouse —
... 4. New York Daily News. Bruce Ratner might be selling a controlling share of the soon-to-be Brooklyn Nets. Can anyone loan me $600 million or so? ...
The Nets Have a Discouraging, Truthful Message for Their Fans
SLAM Online —
... think you’re going to have to win almost half your games probably to make the playoffs in the East this year,” Rod Thorn said this morning.
And your team can do that? “On paper, probably not. But our goal is to improve as we go along and get better, and I think we will do that.”
New Jersey Nets Basketball: So exciting, it hurts!
In other Nets news: Looks like team owner Bruce Ratner is tired of losing money, but is having a tough time finding a buyer.
Tuesday Bullets
ESPN.com - TrueHoop —
... and all -- if the World Series had fizzled to a close last night? I was playing the Tivo in slow motion to see if one of those groundskeepers furiously trying to preserve the mucky surface was in fact David Stern. One of them looked a little like him. Gilbert Arenas says that without LeBron James, the Cavaliers are a D-League team. Candidates for governor in Washington talk about what it would take to get another NBA team. The suggestion that the Nets might be just the tiniest bit for sale.
Bids For the Nets? From Russia, With Ca$h
FanHouse —
Filed under: Nets, NBA RumorsYesterday morning, the Essentials pointed to a New York Daily News report which indicated Nets controlling owner Bruce Ratner -- the dude building Brooklyn's monument to commerce and basketball -- might be looking to sell off his NBA team. Yahoo!'s Adrian Wojnarowski (possibly the best investigative reporter among NBA scribes) sleuthed around and came up with a piece which says this: Ratner has listened to overtures of two prospective foreign ownership groups, two league ...
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Sources: Foreign owners eye Nets - NBA - Yahoo! Sports
sports.yahoo.com 10/29/2008 — BOSTON With tens of millions of dollars in annual operating losses and a $3.5 billion Brooklyn arena and real estate deal in peril, New Jersey Nets owner Bruce Ratner has listened to overtures of two prospective foreign ownership groups, two league ...
THE NETS ARE DESPERATE
withleather.uproxx.com 11/12/2008 —
In an attempt to lure fans to the arena during these economically lean times, the New Jersey Nets are offering free tickets to unemployed people .
[T]he basketball team will give unemployed fans who submit their resumes to the Nets Job Bank up ...
Economy, uncertain financing plague Nets arena
sports.espn.go.com 10/15/2008 — Nets owner and developer Bruce Ratner has been plagued by a string of problems that have delayed his plans for a new NBA arena, office towers and thousands of apartments in Brooklyn.
Unemployed in Jersey? The Nets Want You
nba.fanhouse.com 11/12/2008 — by Tom Ziller The unemployed hardly seem like lucractive targets for hard-driving NBA ticket sales associates. In these tough economic times, the gainfully employed aren't exactly filling sports stadia around the nation ... never mind those without ...
THORN SCALES BACK EARLY EXPECTATIONS —
NY Post: Sports
When training camp began, team president Rod Thorn declared he expected the Nets to make the playoffs. Then he watched the Nets in preseason, and specifically saw them defend and take care of the ball. Or try to do both. The goals are a tad less...
