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Nets Rally Amid Dreary NBA News
Though the NBA lockout continues, the Nets held a rally in Downtown Brooklyn to drum up support in their new home.
Though the NBA lockout continues, and the players have now rejected the league’s contract offer and shut down their union, the Nets still went ahead with their “Brooklyn Experience” rally outside of Borough Hall yesterday, according to the New York Times.
Though still located in New Jersey, the team will move to the Barclays Center area when construction is finished. Ironically, the rally was held on the same day that about their legal suit against the developers behind the Atlantic Yards mega-project, which includes the new stadium.
Still, fans lined up outside of Borough Hall to shoot hoops, while others enjoyed music from a D.J. and Nets dancers shimmied adopt a 40-foot promotional trailer. Borough President Marty Markowitz was, of course, at the event, and toasted the Nets and the Barclays Center, according to the Times.
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The Daily News reports that the Nets have sold tickets to about half of their suites at the Barclays Center (average price $250,000), and that season tickets for the 4,400 best seats are still 15% ahead of expectations.
