The New Jersey Nets are a professional basketball Basketball is a team sport in which two teams of five active players each try to score points against one another by placing a ball through a 10 foot high hoop (the goal) under organized rules. Basketball is one of the most popular and widely viewed sports in the world team in the National Basketball Association The National Basketball Association is a professional basketball league, composed of thirty teams in North America (twenty-nine in the United States and one in Canada). It is an active member of USA Basketball (USAB), which is recognized by the International Basketball Federation as the National Governing Body (NGB) for basketball in the United that plays in the Eastern Conference's Atlantic Division. They are currently based in East Rutherford, New Jersey East Rutherford is a borough in Bergen County, New Jersey. As of the United States 2000 Census, the borough population was 8,716. It is an inner-ring suburb of New York City, located 7 miles west of Midtown Manhattan, and play their home games at the Izod Center The Izod Center is a multi-purpose indoor arena in the Meadowlands Sports Complex in East Rutherford, New Jersey, United States. Opened in 1981, it is currently home to the New Jersey Nets NBA basketball team. The arena was formerly home to the New Jersey Devils NHL hockey team until 2007, when they moved to the Prudential Center in Newark. The team is planning to relocate to the Brooklyn Brooklyn is one of the five boroughs of New York City, located southwest of Queens on the western tip of Long Island. An independent city until its consolidation with New York in 1898, Brooklyn is New York City's most populous borough, with 2.5 million residents, and second largest in area. Since 1896, Brooklyn has had the same boundaries as Kings borough of New York City New York ( /nuːˈjɔrk/ ) is the most populous city in the United States, and the center of the New York metropolitan area, which is among the most populous urban areas in the world. A leading global city, New York exerts a powerful influence over worldwide commerce, finance, culture, fashion and entertainment. As host of the United Nations, but legal issues have complicated the move.
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Former Connecticut star Jeff Adrien got off to a slow start for the combined New Jersey Nets /Philadelphia 76ers team yesterday, collecting a rebound and a ...
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