Nets do the ‘Right Thing’: Push opener to Saturday night
When you’ve waited over 55 years for a major pro sports franchise to call your own, what’s another two days?
That’s the message the Brooklyn Nets sent to their fervent fans, with a little push from Mayor Michael Bloomberg, when they made the decision Wednesday to postpone their much-anticipated season opener against the East River rival New York Knicks at the Barlcays Center in light of the city-wide damage and transportation problems caused by Hurricane Sandy.
“[It was] the right thing to do,” Nets coach Avery Johnson said as his players were forced to practice in Downtown Brooklyn on Wednesday after the team’s facility in East Rutherford, N.J., was shut down due to the violent storm, which left hundreds of thousands throughout the tri-state area without power.