Nets blogs are taking the Dwight Howard-Gerald Wallace news pretty hard.
Yeah. “Brooklyn” will solve everything.
The Nets are 2-7, and they have four different players named Williams!
How do they distinguish between Shawne and Shelden? Do they get their full first names on the back of the jerseys? And if so, are those the two saddest NBA jerseys you could possibly buy?
“No one can fucking guard me!”
Developing…
So the Nets are going to reunite the shoulda-been 2004 Pistons, seven years later? If so, might as well go all-out. I have a feeling Darvin Ham and Mike James aren’t busy.
I really, really want this to happen. 5’10” Avery Johnson and 6’8” Mikhail Prokhorov standing next to reach other! Imagine Avery’s crazy voice and Prokhorov’s crazy Russian accent! Arguing! Devout Christian Avery, and whoremaster Mikhail!
Granted, I think the Nets should prep for the Brooklyn move by assembling the most hipster-friendly team possible, so I think they should hire Ira Kaplan from Yo La Tengo to coach the team. That’s probably a pipe dream, so Avery Johnson is a solid consolation prize.
After the Nets CEO yelled at a fan wearing a brown bag over his head, he and the team’s radio broadcasters had lunch with the fan - a brown bag lunch! Genius! But that’s not all.
Two days after the exchange, the Nets offered any fan who put a paper bag on his head during a game against the Sacramento Kings a nylon Nets bag containing a poster, a pack of player trading cards and a printed note from Yormark that said: “Thanks for letting us see your face. We hope to see it more often at Nets’ games.”Two people accepted the exchange offer, the Nets said.
So, the team was actively encouraging fans to put bags over their heads. This is on the heels of giving away reversible jerseys with a Nets player on one side, and another team’s star on the other. (“That way, if the Nets were losing, a fan could swap his allegiance midgame.”) And have the fans responded to the increased marketing efforts and the push to avoid the worst record in NBA history?
“I don’t really care at this point,” said lifelong fan Tom McManus, a 19-year-old student. “No playoff hopes, so they might as well set the record.”
(HT: Vamsi)
