How did the New Jersey Nets get the team name "The Nets?"?
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A basketball net.  And so that the 3 New York area teams would rhyme (Nets, Mets, Jets).
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Local businesses love to sponsor kids' sports in exchange for putting their name on the team's uniforms.  Then, when the kids win, they get publicity in the paper, etc.  You might go around to the local supermarkets, discount stores, pizza parlors, etc., and see who is receptive to this idea.  Chances are the league has people who are familiar with this process and can help you.\n\nGood luck!
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the new jersey nets did what 21 one teams before should of done this guy is a star in the making and he gets to learn from j-kidd and they got a josh boone who is bassically just like jason collins who is boone but boone is much more athgletic the nets have one of the top 3 best classes and dont forget hassan adams
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The original name of the Pittsburgh's National League franchise was the Pittsburgh Alleghenies. Some contend this is from the county in which Pittsburgh is the seat of government. Others say that it was named after the mountain range in the region. Others maintain that Allegheny, Pennsylvania, which became Pittsburgh's northside after a 1907 annexation, was the tale behind the moniker. In the 1890's, the club was referred to as the Pittsburgh Innocents before the Pirates name stuck by the end of that decade.\n\nWhen the renegade Players League dissolved after the 1890 season, most of the league's player contracts were assigned to National League and American Association clubs, mostly to their previous clubs provided they had been "reserved" by their former teams' owners. Highly-regarded second baseman Lou Bierbauer, who had previously played with the Philadelphia Athletics of the Association, was awarded to the Pittsburgh team on the grounds that the A's had not reserved him. This led to loud complaints by the Athletics that the Pittsburgh club were "pirates". This incident (which is discussed at some length in The Beer and Whisky League, by David Nemec, 1994) quickly accelerated into a schism between the leagues that contributed to the demise of the A.A. The colorful epithet stuck with the Pittsburghers, and eventually became the club's official nickname. It was first acknowledged on the team's jerseys in 1912, but even by the 1903 World Series, "Pirates" was in common usage.
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It's for Dr. John McMullen (previous owner that passed away in 2005)\n\nCheck out this site:\n\nhttp://www.newjerseydevils.com/2005/html/theteam/teamnews/mcmullen-patch.php
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The New Jersey Nets have pick #'s 23, 25, 55...\n\nI'm guessing they will try to grab one NBA-ready big man in the first round and some on else with lots of potential with the other pick they have in the first round. With their second round pick, they'll try to find the best player available that fits into their system.\n\nMy guesses (assuming these players will be not taken before):\n\n6'11'' Paul Davis of Michigan St. with the 23rd pick, because he is a skilled big man that could run the floor well with Kidd, Jefferson, and Carter in fastbreaks. The Nets would be lucky if he falls this far to them in the first round. He could either start at power forward next year or backup Krstic at center.\n\n6'6'' guard Rudy Fernandez of Spain is still a young guy, but he has the talent to become the next Ginobili. He is quick and has a good stroke. If the Nets have patience like they did with Krstic, then they will have a VERY good player in a couple years.\n\n6'9'' Terence Dials of Ohio State would be a good pick up for the Nets in the second round because he would add needed depth and toughness to the Nets bench. He was very solid last season and is an underrated prospect.
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On February 24, 1970, just two weeks after Portland was granted an expansion franchise by the National Basketball Association, Harry Glickman, then executive vice president of the club, announced a public “name the team” contest. A panel of judges was selected. Harry said he no longer is able to recall names of everyone on the panel but remembers Doug Baker, a popular daily columnist of The Oregon Journal, as one of its members. \n\nThe public was invited to mail their entries to the team’s offices, then located in a downtown storefront location on S.W. Yamhill between 5th and 6th Avenues. Harry said there were boxes and boxes of entries mailed in. “There had to be 10,000,” he remembers. The most popular of the entries was “Pioneers” but the new franchise had said at the beginning of the contest team nicknames of any Northwest colleges or universities would be ruled out. Portland’s Lewis & Clark College had already claimed the Pioneers nickname. \n\n“There were 172 people who sent in the name ‘Trail Blazers’ and that is the name the panel ultimately selected,” Glickman said. We determined the contest winner by having a drawing at a regular season NBA game in Memorial Coliseum between Seattle and New York on March 13, he explained. Blake Byrne, general sales manager of KPTV, was winner of the drawing, receiving two season tickets to Blazers home games that year.
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Nylon, the material, had 2 teams credited at the same time with the discovery.\nOne team was in New York and deserved development rights. The other team was in London.\nThe name given: NY+LON or Nylon honoring both teams.\nFabrics and many other uses were soon seen.
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They won 95-87 over the New Jersey Nets.
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Its a promotion by the Miami Heat for all fans who go there, I think its called "white hot" playoffs or something. Its to represent the home team jersey colors as a sign of support.
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i would try going to there web page i believe it is nets.com or newjerseynets.com
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Raptors over the Nets
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GOOOOOOOOO NETSS   GOOOOOOOO NETS  SOUP IT UP SOUP IT UP WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
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It is the Nets, interestingly enough. The Pistons aren't really that strong a rebounding team and are actually marginally outrebounded by their opponenets.
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I'm going with Kemet.  Though I'm not entirely sure plus I can't vouch for the accuracy of these two sites; http://www.globalafrica.com/Names.htm\n       http://www.nba.com/sixers/community/bhm_qa.html
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Just a promotional thing.  They have done it before.  The Kings do similar promotions.  When I was at Game 3 between the Spurs, they gave everyone glow sticks for the introductions.  They try to think up ways to get the entire arena at a uniformity which looks cool to the National viewing audience. What looked cool was when I was watching ESPN the other day before the Heat game, arena workers were laying all those white shirts over every single seat.  What's funny is the few people who are rooting for the other team, or are maybe too fat to where the shirts, how they stand out like a sore thumb while the other 20 thousand people are wearing the same thing!
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Just go to another Kings game.  Inside Staples Center, there is a stand by the entrance on Chick Hearns Ct.  that adds letters and numbers on the back of the jersey's.  Don't know how much it costs, but I know they will do it at Kings games, and also Lakers, Clippers, Sparks, and Avengers games.  My dad and I have season seats for the Kings and I pass that stand every game on my way to my seats every game.