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Bobby Marks: Came across this sign in Spain and thought it was fitting. I came across Bill Walton in the late 90’s during a summer league practice at the old practice facility in East Rutherford. Bill was in New York and elected on his own to come over and speak with the rookies/camp pic.twitter.com/U0V9hA3D8K
Nets Daily: In podcast with Ryen Russillo, Woj says money the Nets got for Kyle Korver wasn’t just used for copier. Part of it was used to pave parking lot at practice facility in East Rutherford. Well, THAT changes EVERYTHING!
Morrow: The first time I moved teams, the Nets signed me as a restricted free agent. I figured the Warriors would match, but as soon as they didn’t, I had to be on my way to Jersey for a press conference. I was in Vegas at the time and didn’t even have a suit, so I had to get on that Men’s Wearhouse grind before heading to East Rutherford. I played in Jersey for two seasons, and then moved to four different teams in the next five years. I’ve never felt any bitterness over that. It’s just the business. And I’ve gone out of my way to maintain the good relationships that I made at every single stop. I’d recommend you do the same.
The Brooklyn Nets will hold their final 2015 NBA Draft workout on Monday, June 22, when they will workout six players in East Rutherford, New Jersey. The Nets will bring in the following players: Olivier Hanlan, Andrew Harrison, Sam Thompson, Pat Connaughton, Branden Dawson and Cliff Alexander.
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While playing games under the theatrical lights of Barclays Center, the team has quietly continued running its basketball operations and conducting practices out of an unassuming office park in East Rutherford, where clusters of nondescript buildings sit alongside water reeds as tall as center Brook Lopez. The goodbyes, then, are incomplete. Since last year, the Nets have been busily converting a 70,000-square-foot warehouse space on the waterfront in Brooklyn’s Sunset Park neighborhood into a grand basketball complex, and barring any delays, the players and coaches will relocate there over the summer. Only then will the team’s colorful decades-long presence in the New Jersey Meadowlands truly come to a close. “It’ll be the end of an era,” said Emanuel Logothetis, whose father, James, owns Candlewyck Diner, a 24-hour restaurant that is a five-minute drive from the Nets’ current practice complex. “It was our team, from our town, but they have to finish the move eventually.”
They came from near and far on Saturday to the Nets’ practice center in East Rutherford, where it was just infinitesimally possible that a cup of coffee in the NBA awaited their arduous efforts. The cost of this farfetched daydream was $150, the entry fee to try out for the Fort Wayne Mad Ants, the independent D-League team that occasionally feeds short-termers to injured and shorthanded NBA rosters. Of these 40 candidates, maybe two or three would be invited to return to the main training camp in Fort Wayne. They would still then have to make the D-League roster, and then... well, that’s where the dream comes in.
Nets Daily: In interview with Russia's ITAR-TASS, Sergey Karasev says "My team has gathered almost completely" in East Rutherford.
The Brooklyn Nets released information about the team's Media Day and Training Camp for the 2014-2015 season. Media Day will be held on September 26 at the team's practice facility in East Rutherford, New Jersey, this season likely being the last year that East Rutherford is the home of the Nets practice facility. Expect comments to come out about Deron Williams and Brook Lopez's health, what kind of shape the players are in, and a type of system that Lionel Hollins will implement in Brooklyn.
Few players in East Rutherford Wednesday morning have NBA experience, most coming from the D-League and European circuit --or both-- after playing in college on American soil. However, it was a highly touted Lithuanian, Mantas Kalnietis, who's never played in the US, who stole the show. There were no stats to show how well Kalnietis played, but it was clear the big and very athletic point guard stood above the rest.
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The Brooklyn Nets will hold a free agent workout camp beginning Monday at their practice facility in East Rutherford N.J., and those scheduled to participate are ex-Pittsburgh forward Gilbert Brown, who was in camp with the Celtics two years ago, former Missouri standout and 2012 second-round pick Kim English, former Sacramento Kings first-round pick Donte Greene, who was briefly a Celtic last offseason, Rick Jackson (Syracuse), Malcolm Lee (UCLA, Timberwolves), DeAndre Liggins (Thunder/Heat), David Noel (North Carolina), DaJuan Summers (Pistons), Scott Machado (Iona), and Michael Snaer (Florida State) .
On Saturday, though, there was a glimmer of hope. Kirilenko appeared on the Nets practice court in East Rutherford, announcing it with a picture on Instagram. The caption, in both English and Russian, said simply, "starting on the court ... finally." What caught our eye was that AK-47 was wearing the Nets' Christmas Day jersey. Was he hinting he might be returning for the noon game that day vs. the Bulls? He told Devin Kharpertian of The Brooklyn Game two days ago that he was still "10 days" away from a return following a bout with the worst back spasms of his career, which he has treated with both acupuncture and an epidural. Ten days from Friday is December 22.
The Brooklyn Nets will host pre-draft workouts on Monday, June 24 at the PNY Center in East Rutherford, N.J. The workouts will be closed to the media, however General Manager Billy King and prospects will be available following the session. Below is a list of participating players: Erick Green, Tim Hardaway Jr, Dennis Tinnon, Demetrius Conger, Giovan Oniangue, Dwayne Davis
Then J-Kidd showed up in East Rutherford. And instantly, the Nets went to back-to-back NBA Finals. Right, happens all the time. “I was thinking of that today,” said Rod Thorn, the man who brought Kidd to Jersey on July 18, 2001. “I remember when Larry Bird went to the Celtics, they took a huge jump up -- it’s happened with a few special players. But we went from 26 wins to. . . .what, 52 as soon as Jason arrived? That’s a pretty incredible jump. And that was almost entirely Jason.”
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