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Time for a Fan to Switch Jerseys? Really?
City Room
by Michael Powell
Gotham columnist Powell lays out why he's not going to throw over the messed-up, infuriating Knicks, DodoDolan notwithstanding.
As for the Nets?
Let’s do the happily nasty recap. Bruce Ratner, a master builder as long as he’s working with government dimes, purchased this suburban nomad of a team and built a tax-subsidized arena in Brooklyn. He promised loads of affordable housing; alas, he hasn’t had the time to build that yet.
Mr. Ratner flipped the team to a Russian oligarch, Mikhail Prokhorov, who made billions in whatever fashion young Russian oligarchs make money. As for the team? I concede the point guard Deron Williams can play a lot better than Raymond Felton or the 39-year-old Jason Kidd, who is previewed as a level-headed wily vet* (* except when he dances on tables, hangs from chandeliers, and, so the police say, drives stone drunk through the Hamptons at night).
As for the rest? Joe Johnson, star shooter, will shoot a lot. Center Brook Lopez is Gandhian about rebounding. Kris Humphries used to date Kim Kardashian and seems to get booed a lot.
Whatever. May suburban refugee hipsters find comfort in a suburban team washed ashore on Flatbush Avenue.
I’m sticking with my ancestral loyalties, even if they edge perilously close to prima facie evidence of mental illness. Sound the bagpipes, wave the flags.
I’m a Knicks dead-Ender.
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Posted by eric at July 19, 2012 10:50 PM
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http://www.nolandgrab.org/archives/2012/07/time_for_a_fan.html
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