yea i agree with BC. the location is horrible. CAA has no trains or anything running to it so if you live far away, you are basically F'ed b/c its too much of a hassle to drive all the way there. plus the arena needs to be revamped anyways. its one of the oldest and when you go to it you just feel like its a football arena. there is really no lighting effects or anything that makes you feel close to/ in the game like garden does.
i heard that people who said they were with ratner before the sale took place have now had different views b/c they dont want to spend all the money, cant blame them. jersey is getting screwed in this. we have new fans growing up and actually being nets fans instead of knicks fans. there are NJ groups that will buy the team back to keep them in jersey if ratner cant move the team to bklyn. i think there is a certain date where ratner needs to have the money and must present something to the nba board or something like that. i thought i read something where a date was june30 or something along those lines (have to look into it more).
bottom line though, if ratner doesnt start to spend his money now, there is going to be a lame product going to brooklyn and most of NY, if not all are knicks fans and from the knicks fans i know and have talked too, knicks fans won't change to nets fans. therefore there could possibly be a lower output in brooklyn than there has been in the passed in jersey. of course ppl would go to the new arena b/c it is new and everything, but eventually ppl are only going to go for the product not the arena, so ratner better be willing to spend the money. but if the moving to bklyn still is a problem in the upcoming months, he could not spend the money b/c he would need ti for moving and the nets as a team could suffer b/c he wants to move the NJ Nets into a Knick-fan area. didnt make sense to me when it first happened.
the nets were originally in NY and were named the Nets b/c it rhymed with the Jets and Mets. so they will probably 90% be Brooklyn Nets.
ps. if hockey is still around, the devils are going to newark so the nets seemingly could easily move there with them.