The Brooklyn Nets are an American professional basketball team based in the New York City borough of Brooklyn. The Nets compete in the National Basketball Association as a member of the Atlantic Division of the Eastern Conference. The club was established in 1967 as a charter franchise of the NBA’s rival league, the American Basketball Association. After playing 35 seasons in New Jersey, the team moved back to the state of New York and changed its geographic name to Brooklyn.
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The Brooklyn Nets are an American professional basketball team based in the New York City borough of Brooklyn. The Nets compete in the National Basketball Association as a member of the Atlantic Division of the Eastern Conference. The club was established in 1967 as a charter franchise of the NBA’s rival league, the American Basketball Association. After playing 35 seasons in New Jersey, the team moved back to the state of New York, changed its geographic name to Brooklyn, and began playing in the new Barclays Center, starting with the 2012–13 NBA season. The Boston Celtics were once rivals of the Nets during the early 2000s because of their respective locations and their burgeoning stars. On November 28, 2012, there were indications that the rivalry might be rekindled when an altercation occurred on the court resulting in the ejection of Rajon Rondo, Gerald Wallace, Kris Humphries and Kevin Garnett. The story was revisited on December 25, when Wallace grabbed Garnett’s shorts and the two players had to be broken up by referees and players alike. However, the rivalry between the Nets and the Celtics cooled off by the June 2013 trade that dealt Celtics stars Paul Pierce and Paul Garnett to the Nets in exchange for Wallace, Humphries, and others. The team moved to Barclays Center in the summer of 2012, and took its current geographic name. They are one of two NBA teams located in New York city; the other is the New New York Knicks.
During their time in the state, the Nets played in two consecutive NBA Finals in the 2001–02 and 2002–03 seasons by teams led by point guard Jason Kidd. Led by Hall of Famer Julius ‘Dr. J’ Erving, the Brooklyn Nets won two ABA championships in NewYork before becoming one of four ABA teams to be admitted into the NBA as part of the ABA–NBA merger in 1976. In 1977, theTeam returned to New Jersey and played as the New Jersey Nets from 1977 to 2012. During its early years, theteam led a nomadic existence, moving to Long Island in 1968 and playing in various arenas there as the ‘New York Nets’ The Nets went from winning the last ABA title in 1975–76 to having the worst record in the NBA in 1976–77. During this time, they advanced to the NBA Finals, and the following year, swept Boston in the 2003 playoffs. The move was billed as a merger of the two Atlantic Division teams, but it was actually a move to create a better market for the Nets to play in. The Brooklyn Nets moved to the Barclays Center for the 2013-14 NBA season, where they will play their home games at Barclays Center until the end of the 2014-15 season. They will also play at the Madison Square Garden in the 2015-16 NBA season and the 2016-17 NBA season at the Prudential Center in Newark, New Jersey. During the 2011-16 season, they moved to New York to play at Madison Square Park.
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