“Hello Brooklyn.”
These two words appeared unavoidable for any New York-based basketball fan during late 2012, when the Nets swapped their longtime home of New Jersey for the glamour of downtown Brooklyn. Having acquired a state of the art arena in one of the trendiest neighborhoods in New York City, the Nets looked well on course to developing into one of the premier franchises in the NBA.
Their imminent arrival in the Big Apple spawned the widespread prediction of a new rivalry set to take the league by storm — between the newly New Yorker Brooklyn Nets, and the Manhattan based New York Knicks.