On Tuesday night in Milwaukee, the Nets will open their tenth season as Brooklyn’s team, then after a short stop in Philadelphia, they’ll be back at Barclays Center for Opening Night. There, it’s expected a full house, 17,732 fans, will greet them and hope this is it. Waiting till next year, that tired Brooklyn slogan that began with the Dodgers. will finally have reached its expiration date.
As Ian Eagle told reporters earlier in the week on a YES Network conference call, the Brooklyn Nets fan has evolved and matured, literally as well as figuratively.