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Ryan Anderson... I mean, Vince Carter
 
I actually started being a fan during the Stephon Marbury error. I Loved Marbury on the Nets and was actually very angry when they traded him. my second favorite player was Keith Van Horn. Never really liked K-mart and lost a lot of respect when he called KVH soft after the championship. The next year it was MArtin's fault they lost agaisnt the Spurs. Byron Scott was a great coach who really changed the Nets. I liked Kidd but too bad lately I only have bad memories of him. He was great especially in the years they went to the finals. I watched Jefferson and develop and I watched Jason Collins pile of minutes. I love the Nets announcers over the years on T.V and radio. Ian Eagle is so underated by the way. Kristic I always knew was going to be good, looks like his career is over though. I have a lot of great memories of the Nets. I'm probably the only one who really enjoyed the Stephon Marbury era.
 
I root for New Jersey.

When I was a little kid the only team called "New Jersey" was the Nets.

My father was a huge sports fan and he followed the Nets, but he was much more concerned with hockey. We watched every single Rangers game - and later the Devils, and if the Nets were on free TV we'd catch an occasional game here and there. I think I was more into it than he was. Some of those Nets teams took a lot of commitment to watch. We actually talked about the NBA more than we watched it. (Maybe that's why I still think hoops is the best sport to read about and talk about.)

I didn't go to too many games, but I did get to see Dr. J's jersey retirement game. (Which was just a happy accident, I'm sure.) I thought it was funny because I was very young and I only knew him as a 76er. They gave out a poster of him standing by a Roman-style pillar that said "All Hail Julius". I hung it in my room. It was the first "enemy" player I ever even considered putting up on my wall. It kind of changed my thinking a bit. I could like players on other teams. Cool! (That thinking led to three things that followed me throughout college - a purple Dan Majerle signature Phoenix Suns cap I ordered off the back of a Tony's Pizza box, A Sacramento Kings cap that most people in South Carolina assumed represented a USFL team or something, and a four foot poster of Patrick Ewing with 3-D sweat so real I always had to resist the urge to towel off the rug underneath it.)

What's strange is that as I got older, I enjoyed watching Nets games more and more while my interest in other sports either stayed the same or declined a bit. I think not being a junkie at seven years old (like with hockey and football and baseball) made it more satisfying somehow. (Believe it or not, I'm starting to feel that way about College Football right now. It's kind of neat how these things evolve.)

When I was a kid, the Nets were mediocre. Buck Williams was the perennial All-Star representative. He was a class act and an easy guy to root for - a great role model. Unfortunately, he wasn't the most exciting player in the world. The Nets' most exciting player was Micheal Ray Richardson (sic), who even then I knew was the opposite of a great role model. They also had the G-Man, Chocolate Thunder, Otis and Albert.

They even drafted my favorite college player of all time - Pearl Washington (!) - who turned out to be a terrible pro. Then things went straight downhill and, IMO, didn't get better until 2001.
 
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (kk30 @ Jul 23 2008, 06:40 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>I actually started being a fan during the Stephon Marbury error. I Loved Marbury on the Nets and was actually very angry when they traded him. my second favorite player was Keith Van Horn. Never really liked K-mart and lost a lot of respect when he called KVH soft after the championship. The next year it was MArtin's fault they lost agaisnt the Spurs. Byron Scott was a great coach who really changed the Nets. I liked Kidd but too bad lately I only have bad memories of him. He was great especially in the years they went to the finals. I watched Jefferson and develop and I watched Jason Collins pile of minutes. I love the Nets announcers over the years on T.V and radio. Ian Eagle is so underated by the way. Kristic I always knew was going to be good, looks like his career is over though. I have a lot of great memories of the Nets. I'm probably the only one who really enjoyed the Stephon Marbury era.</div>
What did you like about the Marbury era?
 
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (kdub @ Jul 23 2008, 05:14 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>Ryan Anderson... I mean, Vince Carter
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LOL.
 
Stephon Marbury and Keith Van Horn. And that guy who shot his chauffeur. And Yinka Dare.
 
Because my teacher is a Nets fan，so.....but i think there is no reason，love the Nets need no reason，hehe。
 
Derrick Coleman and Stephon Marbury. I love to watch the game played with heart and youthieness.
 
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (#1_War_Poet_ForLife @ Jul 23 2008, 07:53 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>Derrick Coleman and Stephon Marbury. I love to watch the game played with heart and youthieness.</div>


not sam cassel?!?!
 
Quite simply... Yi Jianlian! I think many Chinese fans will now watch the Nets because of this player. Probably taken into account when New Jersey acquired him!
 
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (yinets1860 @ Jul 23 2008, 06:48 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>Because my teacher is a Nets fan，so.....but i think there is no reason，love the Nets need no reason，hehe。</div>

Somehow, I don't believe you...


 
Jason Kidd, Kenyon Martin, Derrick Coleman, Rony Seikly, and then finding out Pearl was drafted by the Nets in 86 was icing on the cake.

Plus, I've never liked the Knicks, and my dad was a Knicks fan. I liked Camby when he was on the Knicks, but that was it. And rowing up, I was a player fan - a fan of Shawn Kemp, which sort of made me a fan of Seattle.

After many years of not watching NBA basketball, I started watching it when the Nets were rising. They were the hot team, entertaining as hell, and right next to New York, so I really got into them right away.
 
I got into basketball via NBA Jam - I played that game with my friends all the time before ever watching an NBA game. When I went to the real live version, I was a Magic fan - I was 9 or 10 at the time and just picked the team at the top of the standings. But I tried to absorb everything I could find about basketball - going to as many games as possible, watching it on TV, and reading about it in the newspapers/magazines (this was maybe 95, so the internet was still a baby). However, due to living in North Jersey, the Nets were the team that I could become the most familiar with. There was never a day where I said, "Today, I am a Nets fan," my loyalty gradually built up. I'd say I became a full-fledged fan during the Kittles/Calipari 96-97 season - there was a lot of hype for that era (and the Magic were heading down-hill after losing Shaq).
 
For me it was Dr. J, and for my son it was Derrick Coleman and Petro.
 
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (kdub @ Jul 24 2008, 12:04 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (yinets1860 @ Jul 23 2008, 06:48 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>Because my teacher is a Nets fan，so.....but i think there is no reason，love the Nets need no reason，hehe。</div>

Somehow, I don't believe you...



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at that time，he is a Kidd fan。
 
probably Kidd. I always just picked a great player that I liked in a sport(Chipper, Favre, Kidd) and started liking the team they were on. I never followed sports until a while after I considered myself a fan of the teams they were on. I probably chose Kidd because I wanted to be a point guard, and he was the best of them. Plus he was white. I had nothing against black guys (still don't) but I just preferred white guys because I was little and didn't know many black people. I think kids tend to be unintentionally racist.
 
When I was around 6th or 7th grade, my basketball team had a freethrow shooting contest at the end of one of our practices. My coach had season tickets so the 3 people who shot the best out of ten all got a pair of nets tickets to a different game and I was fortunate to be one of the top 3. My prize was Nets-Lakers tickets. It was my first game going with my dad and all I remember was the nets getting their butts kicked and Yinka Dare being so bad, but i loved the team from then on. To this day the Kittles, Kendall Gill, Jayson Williams, KVH and Cassel team is my favorite Nets team even though we were not that good back in the day.
 
I started to notice the NETS when Jayson Williams was still playing. NBA basketball, back then, was all about Michael Jordan. I was sort of browsing through newspaper reports checking out stats and stuff when I came across this guy getting 12-15 rebounds a game. Of course, the NETS during that time suck so I couldnt care less about the other players. Reading the statlines also lead me to another player from the Western Conference - a rookie from Dallas named Jason Kidd. Boy, this dude can pile em 3-Ds like no other. So I was a Dallas fan..then Phoenix..and then eventually Jersey. New Jersey's rise was really something, eh?
Anyway, I still think of myself as a jersey fan even though JKidd's gone. I hope the team fares well this season.
 
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (nets1 @ Jul 23 2008, 10:29 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>For me it was Dr. J, and for my son it was Derrick Coleman and Petro.</div>

You saw him in the ABA?

Sweet!
 
I got into the Nets around 1990 during the Coleman, Petro, Blaylock, and Anderson days. Mainly because they were one of the few Jersey teams. Got more into it during the Cassell/Kittles/Williams/KVH era.
 
My first experience with anything basketball related was when I changed the channel to NBC and saw Game 6 of the Bulls-Suns finals when I was younger. And John Paxson hitting that three. Oh man, great times. So clearly, I was a young Bulls bandwagon fan. My first NETS moment or when I started to root for them was when they drafted Kerry Kittles way back when and I first saw him play. Man, the high socks and everything. And around that time, Jason Williams was the second leading rebounder in the NBA behind Dennis Rodman, and Sam Cassell's big alien head was dropping 20 a game. Then there was Van Horn, K-Mart, Kendall Gill's triple double with STEALS, Sherman Douglas, etc. I dunno what turned me, but it could possibly be the time when the NETS made the playoffs as the 8th seed and actually competed with the Bulls for one of the three games in the sweep. I was in love, hahaha... GO NETS!
 
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Denny Crane @ Jul 24 2008, 08:49 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (nets1 @ Jul 23 2008, 10:29 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>For me it was Dr. J, and for my son it was Derrick Coleman and Petro.</div>

You saw him in the ABA?

Sweet!
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yeah, back in the day, i was like in jr. high and i thought it was better than the nba too. My team in the nba was the pistons with bob Linear , dave bing, sindy wicks, etc..

i remember taking my son to his first nets game, and as we were arriving near exit 16 i told him look theres the house Derrick built! and he turns to me and pumps his fist and says yes in a marv albert sort of fashion. We saw a great game that night too when the nets beat the spurs and petro went on fire in the second half hitting 3 after 3.

I also remember us walking thru the tunnel and a gang of punks wearing all saints jackets came storming thru, and one guy was shouting we have a gun!
wasn't too pleased about that, but all in all it was a cool night for me and my kid
 
Probably Kmart and his intensity. I just liked watching him put it out there on the floor.
 
It has to be because of Vince, but I did like the Nets before because when I first came to America I lived in NJ, so I preferred the Nets over any team except the Raptors.

I won't lie, I am more of a Vince Carter fan than a team fan.
 
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Froz-T @ Jul 24 2008, 08:58 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>It has to be because of Vince, but I did like the Nets before because when I first came to America I lived in NJ, so I preferred the Nets over any team except the Raptors.

I won't lie, I am more of a Vince Carter fan than a team fan.</div>


Hey Froz, welcome to S2! Send me a PM if you ever have any questions about the site.
 
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (King John da FiF @ Jul 24 2008, 08:53 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Legacy @ Jul 23 2008, 10:04 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>Vince Carter</div>
How do you make those GIF images?
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It's a fairly complicated process. If you'd like to know, give me your AIM, because I'm too lazy to put it here.
 
What's interesting to see is that so many current Nets fans used to be fans of one particular player. I know a lot of "Vince fans," "Stro fans," and "Yi fans" get a lot of grief because they mainly support the player and not our team...but a lot of us were the same way; "Kenyon fans" and whatnot.

Who knows, maybe you Vince guys will stick around long enough to make fun of the "Lebron fans" haha
 
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