Friday 22nd November 2024,
The Hoop Doctors

Nets Move to Brooklyn Still on Track for 2012

If you said you doubted that the Nets would move to Brooklyn, you probably weren’t alone. It seems like a lifetime ago that we first heard news of the potential relocation. But looks like things are still going according to plan. I guess the only thing still left to figure out is their name.

“It’s coming,” Nets general manager Billy King said Wednesday of the Barclays Center, his team’s billion-dollar arena under construction in downtown Brooklyn. “You know it now. I think all the negative people not believe it’s going to happen — we don’t have to show pictures anymore.”

King was standing in what will be the main concourse of the building, addressing reporters about the structure, which is about 60 percent complete and on schedule for its anticipated opening in the fall of 2012.

Read more about the progress of the Nets’ move at NJ.com.

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