Brooklyn Nets is an American YouTube channel and a NBA basketball team located in Brooklyn, New York City, New York.
History[]
The Brooklyn Nets were founded in 1967 and initially played in Teaneck, New Jersey, as the New Jersey Americans. In its early years, the team led a nomadic existence, moving to Long Island in 1968 and playing in various arenas there as the New York Nets.[1]
The Nets won two ABA championships in New York before becoming one of four ABA teams to be admitted into the NBA as part of the ABA–NBA merger in 1976. Unlike the other three ABA teams entering the NBA, the Nets were required by the NBA to pay an "encroachment fee" of $4.8 million to the New York Knicks.[2] The team financed that payment by selling Erving's contract to the Philadelphia 76ers and the Nets went from winning the last ABA title in 1975–76 to having the worst record in the NBA in 1976–77. The team then moved back to New Jersey in 1977 and became the New Jersey Nets.[3]
On September 26, 2011, JAY-Z, announced that the team's new name after the move to Brooklyn would be the Brooklyn Nets.[4] The team officially became the Brooklyn Nets on April 30, 2012. The team's new colors were announced to be black and white, and two official logos designed by Timothy Morris were unveiled.[5] The primary logo is a shield depicting the team name 'Nets', along with a basketball with an overlaid "B". The secondary logo is the same "B-ball" surrounded by a black circle with the text "Brooklyn" and "New York". The new logo's typeface and colors are meant to evoke New York City Subway rollsigns from the 1950s when Brooklyn last had a major league sports team.[6] This rebranding of the team led to a dramatic increase in merchandise sales for the team. On the first two days that the new merchandise was available, total sales from the NBA Store were 10 times that of a typical year when the team was in New Jersey, and in the initial months of the 2012–13 season, the Nets led all NBA teams in apparel sales.[7]
Channel[]
The Brooklyn Nets channel was created on March 30, 2007. Their first video was uploaded on December 11, 2007. Their first video is titled "Nets Go Green PSA 1".
References[]
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20101225000043/http://remembertheaba.com/TeamMaterial/NewJerseyMaterial/AmericansArticlePart1.pdf
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20130929043803/http://fort-greene.thelocal.nytimes.com/2012/10/31/nets-knicks-ignite-crosstown-rivalry/
- ↑ https://books.google.com/books?id=nZUarsZyzokC
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20110927204834/http://www.myfoxny.com/dpp/news/jay-z-makes-announcement-about-nba-nets-20110926-KC
- ↑ http://www.timothypmorris.com/
- ↑ http://www.nj.com/nets/index.ssf/2012/04/nets_new_logo_unveiled_at_even.html
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20121201132239/http://fort-greene.thelocal.nytimes.com/2012/11/27/knicks-and-nets-rivalry-begins-at-barclays/
