While the 2011-12 NBA season may be wiped away by the lockout, fans in Brooklyn have reason to
look forward to the 2012-13 campaign. Why? That's the season the New Jersey Nets become the
Brooklyn Nets. The Brooklyn Nets will play at the Barclays Center a sports arena in Brooklyn that
cost in excess of $1 billion to construct.
By J Hutcherson - WASHINGTON, DC (Sep 27, 2011) US Soccer Players -- The New Jersey Nets announced
on Monday that they would become the Brooklyn Nets next season, a move that should've surprised
nobody following the fortunes of North Jersey pro basketball. Malcolm Gladwell has the standard
account of the motivations behind basketball in New York's newly gentrified borough over at
Grantland.
