Rustin Dodd, writing for The Athletic, provides a history lesson for Nets fans, calling the Nets an “experiment” from their beginning in the Teaneck Armory in 1967 to the arrival of “Big Three” in Brooklyn 54 years later.
Dodd relives every time the Nets tried something — anything — to breakthrough in the New York region, from thinking of signing Wilt Chamberlain at age 49 to getting East Rutherford to change its name to Nike (!) to changing the team name to “Swamp Dragons” to the last time the Nets tried a superstar-driven enterprise, the disaster that was the Celtics trade in 2013.