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Daily Link: Barclays Not Guaranteed to Sell

In an article on Slam Online, Kyle Stack talks to Robert Boland, a sports management professor at NYU, about Mikhail Prokhorov and the Barclays Arena under construction in arena. A lot of this article is the same old same old about Prokhorov, but Boland has an interesting take on the arena:

“They will have trouble selling out the arena the first couple of years,” Boland said. “The Knicks are having trouble selling out and they’re in Madison Square Garden with four million people walking under it every day.”

Even though the Nets’ Brooklyn arena would seemingly benefit from the 2.5 million people who live in the borough and the resulting enthusiasm of Brooklyn finally getting a pro sports team after what will have been a 54-year pro sports drought, there are plenty of questions yet to be answered. First on the list is whether fans are willing to pay for tickets to watch a team which has no assurance of being among the NBA’s elite during the next several years.

For starters, the arena is going to open a few years out, at which point the Nets will hopefully be in the Eastern Conference mix again. Second, I think there’s going to be a general curiosity the first few years of this thing, that will sell a bunch of tickets to casual fans. The Brooklyn market has gone untapped for decades, and as someone who lives in the borough, I don’t think you can just look to MSG and Manhattan to determine that Brooklyn will likely follow suit. They’re two completely different markets from my perspective. Also keep in mind that the Knicks have been miserable for nearly a decade. The Nets misery at this point has been short lived in comparison, and quite frankly, if the Knicks don’t land LeBron this summer, as they’ve been subtlety promising their fans they’re going to do for the past year, I think there’s a very good chance that a number of disenchanted Knicks fans will jump to the Nets camp.

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John Rubio would be great. I would be more excited with him then even wall Wall at PG.

I was thinking recently maybe the Nets might want to make a trade to get the rights to Ricky Rubio. They would have enough money to buy him out and they could offer either a Chris Douglas Roberts, Courtney Lee or D Harris. Any thoughts.

Yep he's a point forward. As fo Wade, T Will may be a better playmaker than Wade. I don't watch Miami enough or pay attention to Wade's passing enough to know. I do know he's a good passer but from when I watch Miami he carrys the ball so that it in his hand and do what he does best score and also create of his penetration. Also Miami have awful point guards. T Will on the other hand carry the ball up because its his natural strength not his an outstanding needs.

George Kiki wasn't our problem it is the Nets org. Proky thinks he can bring a championship to the Nets? Ha! He will soon learn that the NBA doesn't want the Nets to win.

Point isn't our problem-size is. We should be concentrating on the daft and maybe Favors and who ever else we can scoop up with our three picks. We really need the size now we have enough 6'4" to 6'6" players. What a team we will have now that KiKi is gone!

So there is no way the Nets are winning a championship in 5 years. Maybe 10 years depending if the NBA thinks they are important enough and if they do have a strong fan base by then.

Only way Nets are going to win Knick fans is if they sign Lebron and Wade.

Only way the Nets are making the playoffs next year is if they can trade up for the #1 or #2 pick and sign two star players.

I hear you-- TWill makes some really imaginative plays. But Devin does well with his drive-n-dish and all those alley-oops to Brook.

wow that's crazy, I guess I should have looked that up before writing but whenever I'm watching Devin I feel like I'm watching him miss opportunities for assists, and with TWill it always looks like he saw something that no one else can see...but numbers don't lie

Eh, but it looks like about 6 per 36 min for TWill for his 1.5 month hot streak at the end.

Devin's averaged 7 asst per 36 minutes over the last 3 years; TWill did 4.6/36 last year.

Also I think Devin is better suited for playing off the ball, I never see him racking up the assists, or making passes as well as TWill does

Now I'm not saying TWill is Dwayne Wade at ALL, not by any stretch of the imagination, so just wanna clarify that before I write this. TWill can be listed at whatever position they want, but he can bring up the ball like Wade does most of the time. If you look at their pre-draft measurements, TWill and Wade look exactly the same. TWill had some trouble finishing around the rim last year, but the thing was that he GOT to the rim a lot, he's a playmaker, and a great passer. If the shooting improves I think he can be one of our best players, if not the best player. Not Dwayne Wade, but could/should be our "point forward" or whatever they call it

I agree with Mark, Twill can't play point guard, he can carry the ball up but he's not a point guard. We have Devin.

I think that the Nyets will sell out, they are going to be good unlike the knicks. I think the knicks won't be good in 3 yrs so there will be a lot of fans looking for hope. Twill would be a good pg only if the offense is ran around him, like dwade and lbj.

I think TWill could be the Nets starting PG. He is 6'6" but plays small. His body can absorb more contact where DHarris is always getting hurt. Even DHarris got caught watching TWill this year.

This summer will be a fight for dollars as well as free agents.
When was the last time the Nets and Knicks sold out 2 stadiums on 1 night?
The Nets need a big name to get people to come to NJ on a regular basis. The Knick's fanbase will neep MSG full, the Nets dont have that luxury.
The Nets will have to use Brett Y and his crazy schemes to sel tickets is the Nets end up with Rudy Gay, David Lee and Tom Thibodeau as coach. Tickets will be scarce if the Nets score big names like Lebron, Bosh, and Phil Jackson.
Plus we are living in a depression oops I mean recession.
The Nets have so much more to gain if they remain active in NJ and Brooklyn and keep ticket prices lower for families.
Brooklyn is full of working class people and the Nets have alienated enough people.

Also Devin I think I was reading some of your stuff in the NetsDaily forums about TWill vs. Wall, do u think TWill can be our PG in the future? I feel like he could be one of the best ones in the league, great passer, athletic, needs to work on shooting (just like every young player out there)

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