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In Sorry Tale of the New Jersey Nets Bruce Ratner Provides the Coup de Grace
The Star Ledger's Dave D'Alessandro tells the sorry tale of the hapless Nets franchise in anticipation of their final game in New Jersey tonight. The Nets are a cursed franchise for sure, but there was no bigger curse than the introduction of Bruce Ratner into the team's epic tale of woe and horrible luck:
...And in the coup de grace of public manipulation — economic, emotional or otherwise — a real estate developer named Bruce Ratner bought the team in 2004 for the sole purpose of using it to justify the seizure of land via public domain, and making the Nets' new arena the centerpiece of a $5 billion complex in Brooklyn that he will build mostly with taxpayer money.
This process took more than eight years from conception to groundbreaking, and every step of the way, you got the impression that the Nets — and anyone who actually cared about them — were watching the clock, as Ratner stripped the team of assets and sold managing interest to an oligarch, Mikhail Prokhorov.
It takes a man of Bruce Ratner's stature to be considered the worst thing that ever happened to the New Jersey Nets.
On a related note, good luck to the Knicks in the playoffs.
Posted: 4.23.12
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