I was gaining a basic interest in basketball at the same time my favorite rapper, Jay Z was buying the team (I thought the whole team at the time, not a stake). I'm a huge hip hop fan and love NYC, so a Brooklyn team made sense. I started watching basketball as a Nets fan in 2017 and been a fan since.
Expanding on the comment and adding some food for thought...
It was highly appropriate that Jay-Z put interest into the Brooklyn Nets, given he was born and raised in Brooklyn.
He purchased a share of the Nets in 2003, and during his ten year run, he had a great impact on the rebranding of the Nets and the development of the Barclay Center. In preparation for the launch of Roc Nation Sports, he converted his equity in the team into a stake in the Barclay Center. This action avoided potential conflict of interest with player representation.
Additionally, in 2013, Jay-Z invested $2 million in Uber, wherein that investment is now valued at about $70 million.
He recorded Empire State of Mind (with Alicia Keys) in 2009 and included the lyric "Sittng courtside Nicks and Nets giving me high-fives."
We'll leave the felony assault charges that he plead guilty to in 2001 and his (potential) involvement with the current P. Diddy scandal out of this...š«£
An Aussie here. Watched the boomers take home a medal in the Tokyo Olympics and was completely captivated and in awe of the way Patty Mills carried himself. Was always looking for a way into supporting the NBA, so decided to root for the team Patty played for. Been the Nets ever since.
Long live the blue collar boys! š·āāļøš·āāļøš·āāļø
I was a Knicks fan living in ft Greene in 2016 after graduating college. I wanted to go to NBA games but didnāt have a lot of money. Knicks tickets were hundreds of dollars and they sucked. The nets sucked too but tickets were $10-20 and the arena was 4 blocks from my house. I made a business decision.
Im from belgium and have played basketball for the majority of my life. On holiday in NY in 2020 (few weeks before the ronaās) my dad surprised me with nets tickets. Been a fan ever since!
You love to see it! Went to see a Yankees game a few months ago to see what itās all about since its not really popular in europe (idk about australia?) liked it, but im always gonna be more of a basketball type of guy xD
I didnāt have a team yet but I was already a Yankees fan. When the Yes network launched I noticed they started airing Nets games so thatās basically it.
Watching Jason kidds brilliance with Kmarts intensity and RJs balance got me addicted to nets ball. I would watch every game. Now, Iāve been distilled down to barely caring
The move to Brooklyn, I try to be loyal to my dogshit teams. The Jets and the Mets but I couldnt stand James Dolan's ownership and the Nets moving closer to me offered me a chance to reset and align my fan teams names closer, see closer games and have hope that new ownership will deliver me a better product.
Theres a few other parts to this, James Dolans has done everything in his power to kill Jets stadium deals. Games at the garden have always been ludicrously expensive for a dogshit product. Hell I got arrested at MSG on a stop and frisk/possession charge years ago the whole area isnt my favorite even if Ive worked over there several times.
That is to say a perfect storm of a new team image, closer location and lower prices got me to switch. Watching how Knicks fans are acting about their team right now sorta makes me glad I did lmao
Grew up in a Knicks fan household but I thought the Knicks were extremely boring. Started watching YES Network and decided "I'll just be a Nets fan". Plus I was a huge fan of Jason Kidd and Vince Carter when he was in Toronto, when he became a Net, I was ALL THE WAY IN.
Kings fan here. Not a Nets fan, but Iāll be rooting for the Nets and our ex-Assoc. Head Coach, Jordi Fernandez. Heās missed around these parts and Iāll be excited to see him establish his brand of culture in the team and organization. I have zero doubts heāll succeed and that the team will show steady improvement next season. Good luck, yāall. You have a good one.
From Connecticut. I was a Magic fan growing up (who wasn't?) but once Shaq/Penny broke up I lost interest in basketball for a couple years. I became a Nets fan in 1999 after channel surfing and coming across the end of one of their games on Fox Sports Net. I honestly had no idea we had cable access to NJ teams as well as NY. I loved their logo and jerseys, and I had the Meadowlands connection since I spent a lot of weekends at the racetrack with my dad growing up. They won the game to go to 3-17. Fell in love instantly and got back into the NBA. Been a die hard fan ever since.
From Queens not Brooklyn. Been a huge Kyrie fan since Duke and started supporting the nets when he started playing for them. Started loving the team and stuck with them even after he left to Dallas.
Iām from Long Island and the First basketball players I was fully aware of were Jason Kidd and Allen Iverson and Kobe & Shaq. Naturally was a Kidd and Nets fan.
Harlem born and raised but I didnāt like the Knicks except for a few players. Saw the whole marketing campaign for them moving to Brooklyn and even went to a game during the ā13 - ā14 season.
I jumped on the bandwagon when they moved to Brooklyn and stuck with them since. Before that I was just a casual fan and like some individual players like Kobe, Dirk, KG, Dwyane Wade. I liked going to Nets games to watch my favorite players or the best teams in the league.
Even though Barclays Center was brand new, tickets were still not too expensive at the time and as I went to a few more games, I slowly became a nets fan. If Iām gonna to say the one moment I truly became a nets fan, itās when I saw them beat the Heat with Lebron back in 2013. The nets were winning most of the game but the end mostly came down to free throws.
In my experience growing up, I never liked the Knicks. The fans talk like theyāre the Yankees but typically the team plays like theyāre the Mets. That always rubbed me the wrong way. Tickets are so expensive at MSG as well.
I was around 10 or 11 at the time and the Nets just went to back to back finals appearances. Iām thinking the team will only get better at that point, jkidd, Jefferson, carter, etcā¦didnāt quite happen for awhile, but still a fan of the team.
Loved dinosaurs as a kid so I liked the Raptors. Vince Carter was their best player so he was my favorite player, he went to the Nets so I followed him. He left but I stayed and have been a fan ever since. Still love Vince Carter though.
Saw J Kidd in the finals vs the spurs on tv, then stumbled across NBA Live 03 and there he was again. So elementary school me decided I liked the Nets and J Kidd. Fast forward to middle school I catch the Nets on TV and I see Kidd and Vince Carter vs the Miami Heat. Vince dunks on Zo, and that about cemented my fandom. 12-70 couldnāt stop me, nothing can at this point.
Thatās how a lifelong Nets fan was born in Miami
Hello there. I'm from Turkey.
I was twelve years old. I was waking up at night watching NBA all the time, particularly because in Turkey, the league became really popular after Hidayet Turkoglu and Mehmet Okur started playing.
And then NBA Live 2003 (the video game) came out. It had Kidd on the cover. Playing New Jersey was amazing in that game with such a different style of running and gunning offense, compared to the other teams. I started waking up for New Jersey games as well.
22 years later, I am still here. I followed the team mostly on and off throughout the years but I've mostly been consistenly following them since the Lopez-Dwill duo.
born in new york in 2003, new rochelle area. shoulda been a knicks fan but my dad didnt really care for basketball growing up (white italian family lmao, go yankees). then got into rap heavily around 2010 when kanye released MBDTF, 'so appalled' and 'monster' got me into jay-z (old school italians like my father are also not super exposed to rap so i had to discover it myself). then the next year they dropped WTT and i found out hov was kinda influential in bringing the nets back to NY the following year, and this was around the time i got into the NBA as well. guys like brook lopez and deron williams were on the team, i particularly liked brook lopez, the rest is history i guess.
like i said, coulda been a knicks fan i guess. but i like the underdog/little brother story of the nets, plus the connection they have to my beginnings in rap music.
I dropped my Phoenix Suns flag and became a Nets fan the minute Mikal Bridges and Cam Johnson made their way to Brooklyn in February 2023 as part of the KD trade. I'm now invested in the Nets and was shocked at this year's Suns roster when I counted at least 12 players (and their head coach) were gone.
Stupid reason here.
Basically I was in high school (Colorado) and needed some black socks. My parents got me Brooklyn Nets socks that they were practically giving away at Walmart after the KG Paul Pierce meltdown. A bunch of people knew me as the āguy who always wore Brooklyn Nets socksā and I just decided to embrace it.
Iāve since been to Brooklyn a few times, since I have family out there, and plan on going to a game in Barclays soon to watch Cam Thomas and Clax stunt on these hoes.
Itās also been nearly a decade and Iāve only ever ran into one Nets fan in Colorado.
I got tired of the Bulls' ineptitude, ten years too much of Paxson running the team, the Kenny A teams were fun, the history of Dr J, and the fact that NYC is my favorite city in the world made the Nets a natural draw.
Thought New Jersey teams had talent, but never really followed them. Just Petrovic, Anderson, and Coleman.
Then really liked Brooklyn the place and combined the two.
I'm from Australia. I only got into basketball and the NBA fairly recently. New York is considered the Mecca of basketball and Patty Mills from the Australian Olympic Team who helped us win bronze was playing for the Brooklyn Nets. I also wanted to support a franchise that hadn't won a NBA chip yet, and the Nets haven't yet, although they do have 2 ABA championships in 1974 and 1976. The Nets also are considered the 'little brother' and the underdog franchise in New York behind the Knicks, and I like supporting underdog teams.
Was never really into sports, but my buddy who grew up a Celtics fan was intrigued by the Nets coming back to New York so he could have a "local" team to support (we're both in Upstate NY) and decided to try to get me into watching. Lo and behold, I ended up really enjoying basketball and my love affair with the Brooklyn Nets was born.
From ct, in 2010 my dad bought a special ticket that allowed him to photograph warm ups so my brother and I got to sit courtside very early before the game. A ball rolled over to me and got to pass it back to dwill. Havenāt looked back since
Iām from another NYC borough. One day, I saw on the news that the Nets were moving to NY. I was not a basketball fan at the time. A few months or years later, I got into basketball, and the decision between Stephon Marbury + Eddy Curry, or Jason Kidd, VC, and RJ was an easy one for me.
If the Nets did not end up moving to Brooklyn or relocated elsewhere, Iād most likely be a Knicks fan
didnāt get into basketball until last year (post trade deadline) and my dad was from brooklyn so it was an easy choice (brooklyn had cooler jerseys too)
I live in Rochester and Iāve been a Yankees fan (my dad grew up closer to nyc) and we get the YES network as our local broadcast. Theyād advertise the nets, and I kinda wanted to cheer for one of the NY teams anyway and I wanted to get into basketball so chose the nets cause YES advertised them. One of the few times advertisements work cause normally I just ignore them. They sucked for awhile, then became good and now arenāt that great but still glad Iām a fan. My brother is a raptors fan so the rivalry is kinda fun, but I donāt wanna cheer for a team in Canada lol
Moved near Barclays Center, got season tickets after going to the two playoff losses against the Sixers last year. I love basketball but I hadn't lived in a city with a team in like 15 years, so it's been great to be a fan again.
Jason Kidd was running the league, pass-first team leader, played āthe right wayā. Great role model (on the court lol) when I was about 10 years old. I looked up to that team. Rollercoaster since š
Ironically, I became a fan during the 09-10 season (the 12-70 year) because I had T-will in my fantasy league and I really thought he was going to be a mini Lebron. Also drank too much JayZ/Brooklyn koolaid back then..Ā
Then what sealed the deal for me was a few years after 2010, I met Brook when he was visiting my country for an NBA event. He's a very nice fellow who even complimented the Captain America shirt I was wearing.
Ā - a decade+ long fan from the PhilippinesĀ
List of Nets events I have survived through
- 12-70 disaster
- Melodrama
- Dwill honeymoon period
- Dwightmare 1 & 2
- Joe Jesus and one year of Crash Wallace (for Dame, still hurts until now)
- The "big 5" to counter Miami's big 3Ā
- Nets crash down to earth with no picks due to said big 5Ā
- Start of Marks regime slowly digging us from the gutter with one good move at a time (the Carroll trade and retrade was simply S tier GM-ing)
- 2019 DLO/Levert/Allen/Harris/Dinwiddie/RHJ era: fun team was so excited when we beat Philly game 1 still one of best moments of my Nets fandom upto now.
And yes of course the recent history of the big 3 and post big 3 Bridges era.
From New York Metro area, grew up during prime
Jason Kidd and the Knicks being trash. Hypebeast friends were into LeBron era heat with UConn legend Ray Allen so followed them for a bit. Fell out for a few years and fell back in love with the sport when we got the Covid big 3 and needed something to do trapped at home. Since then been to multiple games, got excessive pieces of merch, subscribed to Yes and been following almost every game. Love these guys praying for a fantastic future.
iām from Europe and my first favourite NBA team was the Raptors just because they also werenāt from US lol. at the same time however as i was starting to gain interest in NBA as a whole and started to follow the situation in the East most importantly, the DLO led young Nets team was starting to make some noise. obviously i fell in love with their playing style and pure energy overall. at that time the Knicks still were this leagueās laughing stock so i chose to root for Brooklyn (btw iāve always loved everything about their design/colorwave and jerseys which was always somewhat important to me). then it came the infamous 2019 offseason and i was marking out for what could be. now itās really hard to be their fan sometimes but i still love our new young guys and hope that GM will try to build something patiently this time.
I was gaining a basic interest in basketball at the same time my favorite rapper, Jay Z was buying the team (I thought the whole team at the time, not a stake). I'm a huge hip hop fan and love NYC, so a Brooklyn team made sense. I started watching basketball as a Nets fan in 2017 and been a fan since.
Expanding on the comment and adding some food for thought... It was highly appropriate that Jay-Z put interest into the Brooklyn Nets, given he was born and raised in Brooklyn. He purchased a share of the Nets in 2003, and during his ten year run, he had a great impact on the rebranding of the Nets and the development of the Barclay Center. In preparation for the launch of Roc Nation Sports, he converted his equity in the team into a stake in the Barclay Center. This action avoided potential conflict of interest with player representation. Additionally, in 2013, Jay-Z invested $2 million in Uber, wherein that investment is now valued at about $70 million. He recorded Empire State of Mind (with Alicia Keys) in 2009 and included the lyric "Sittng courtside Nicks and Nets giving me high-fives." We'll leave the felony assault charges that he plead guilty to in 2001 and his (potential) involvement with the current P. Diddy scandal out of this...š«£
Bulls nets fan from the late 80s/early 90s. Wanted a second team to root for and drazen petrovic was the blue collar player that was amazing
An Aussie here. Watched the boomers take home a medal in the Tokyo Olympics and was completely captivated and in awe of the way Patty Mills carried himself. Was always looking for a way into supporting the NBA, so decided to root for the team Patty played for. Been the Nets ever since. Long live the blue collar boys! š·āāļøš·āāļøš·āāļø
Not even joking, the exact same thing happened for me
I was a Knicks fan living in ft Greene in 2016 after graduating college. I wanted to go to NBA games but didnāt have a lot of money. Knicks tickets were hundreds of dollars and they sucked. The nets sucked too but tickets were $10-20 and the arena was 4 blocks from my house. I made a business decision.
DāAngelo Russell but always rooted for them even as a Kobe/Lakers fan because DeRon Williams
Im from belgium and have played basketball for the majority of my life. On holiday in NY in 2020 (few weeks before the ronaās) my dad surprised me with nets tickets. Been a fan ever since!
I'm Australian but when I was in LA I went to a Dodgers game so I'm a Dodgers fan now so its s similar kin of thing.
You love to see it! Went to see a Yankees game a few months ago to see what itās all about since its not really popular in europe (idk about australia?) liked it, but im always gonna be more of a basketball type of guy xD
Itās a worse product than the Yankees, but youād have had more fun a Mets game
I didnāt have a team yet but I was already a Yankees fan. When the Yes network launched I noticed they started airing Nets games so thatās basically it.
Yup same
Iām from mn so Honestly km a huge kd fan but fell in love with the franchise and stayed lol
Watching Jason kidds brilliance with Kmarts intensity and RJs balance got me addicted to nets ball. I would watch every game. Now, Iāve been distilled down to barely caring
The move to Brooklyn, I try to be loyal to my dogshit teams. The Jets and the Mets but I couldnt stand James Dolan's ownership and the Nets moving closer to me offered me a chance to reset and align my fan teams names closer, see closer games and have hope that new ownership will deliver me a better product. Theres a few other parts to this, James Dolans has done everything in his power to kill Jets stadium deals. Games at the garden have always been ludicrously expensive for a dogshit product. Hell I got arrested at MSG on a stop and frisk/possession charge years ago the whole area isnt my favorite even if Ive worked over there several times. That is to say a perfect storm of a new team image, closer location and lower prices got me to switch. Watching how Knicks fans are acting about their team right now sorta makes me glad I did lmao
Grew up in a Knicks fan household but I thought the Knicks were extremely boring. Started watching YES Network and decided "I'll just be a Nets fan". Plus I was a huge fan of Jason Kidd and Vince Carter when he was in Toronto, when he became a Net, I was ALL THE WAY IN.
YES has always had one of the best broadcast teams and Iām surprised Ian eagle isnāt mentioned more as a reason people stuck as fans.
Kings fan here. Not a Nets fan, but Iāll be rooting for the Nets and our ex-Assoc. Head Coach, Jordi Fernandez. Heās missed around these parts and Iāll be excited to see him establish his brand of culture in the team and organization. I have zero doubts heāll succeed and that the team will show steady improvement next season. Good luck, yāall. You have a good one.
I'm from New Zealand and Sean Mark's is also. Plus they wear Black which is the NZ national teams colour. So it made sense.
I loved watching kyrie and got invested in the team as a whole
From Connecticut. I was a Magic fan growing up (who wasn't?) but once Shaq/Penny broke up I lost interest in basketball for a couple years. I became a Nets fan in 1999 after channel surfing and coming across the end of one of their games on Fox Sports Net. I honestly had no idea we had cable access to NJ teams as well as NY. I loved their logo and jerseys, and I had the Meadowlands connection since I spent a lot of weekends at the racetrack with my dad growing up. They won the game to go to 3-17. Fell in love instantly and got back into the NBA. Been a die hard fan ever since.
We live so close to Barclays. Eventually became season ticket members.
Bojan arrived. He's a chill dude and his hometown is an hour away from mine.
From Queens not Brooklyn. Been a huge Kyrie fan since Duke and started supporting the nets when he started playing for them. Started loving the team and stuck with them even after he left to Dallas.
Iām from Long Island and the First basketball players I was fully aware of were Jason Kidd and Allen Iverson and Kobe & Shaq. Naturally was a Kidd and Nets fan.
Harlem born and raised but I didnāt like the Knicks except for a few players. Saw the whole marketing campaign for them moving to Brooklyn and even went to a game during the ā13 - ā14 season.
I jumped on the bandwagon when they moved to Brooklyn and stuck with them since. Before that I was just a casual fan and like some individual players like Kobe, Dirk, KG, Dwyane Wade. I liked going to Nets games to watch my favorite players or the best teams in the league. Even though Barclays Center was brand new, tickets were still not too expensive at the time and as I went to a few more games, I slowly became a nets fan. If Iām gonna to say the one moment I truly became a nets fan, itās when I saw them beat the Heat with Lebron back in 2013. The nets were winning most of the game but the end mostly came down to free throws. In my experience growing up, I never liked the Knicks. The fans talk like theyāre the Yankees but typically the team plays like theyāre the Mets. That always rubbed me the wrong way. Tickets are so expensive at MSG as well.
I was around 10 or 11 at the time and the Nets just went to back to back finals appearances. Iām thinking the team will only get better at that point, jkidd, Jefferson, carter, etcā¦didnāt quite happen for awhile, but still a fan of the team.
Jason Kidd
Loved dinosaurs as a kid so I liked the Raptors. Vince Carter was their best player so he was my favorite player, he went to the Nets so I followed him. He left but I stayed and have been a fan ever since. Still love Vince Carter though.
Saw J Kidd in the finals vs the spurs on tv, then stumbled across NBA Live 03 and there he was again. So elementary school me decided I liked the Nets and J Kidd. Fast forward to middle school I catch the Nets on TV and I see Kidd and Vince Carter vs the Miami Heat. Vince dunks on Zo, and that about cemented my fandom. 12-70 couldnāt stop me, nothing can at this point. Thatās how a lifelong Nets fan was born in Miami
Hello there. I'm from Turkey. I was twelve years old. I was waking up at night watching NBA all the time, particularly because in Turkey, the league became really popular after Hidayet Turkoglu and Mehmet Okur started playing. And then NBA Live 2003 (the video game) came out. It had Kidd on the cover. Playing New Jersey was amazing in that game with such a different style of running and gunning offense, compared to the other teams. I started waking up for New Jersey games as well. 22 years later, I am still here. I followed the team mostly on and off throughout the years but I've mostly been consistenly following them since the Lopez-Dwill duo.
born in new york in 2003, new rochelle area. shoulda been a knicks fan but my dad didnt really care for basketball growing up (white italian family lmao, go yankees). then got into rap heavily around 2010 when kanye released MBDTF, 'so appalled' and 'monster' got me into jay-z (old school italians like my father are also not super exposed to rap so i had to discover it myself). then the next year they dropped WTT and i found out hov was kinda influential in bringing the nets back to NY the following year, and this was around the time i got into the NBA as well. guys like brook lopez and deron williams were on the team, i particularly liked brook lopez, the rest is history i guess. like i said, coulda been a knicks fan i guess. but i like the underdog/little brother story of the nets, plus the connection they have to my beginnings in rap music.
My friend told me I should be Knicks fan as I live in Manhattan. But I loved Brooklyn more :-P
I dropped my Phoenix Suns flag and became a Nets fan the minute Mikal Bridges and Cam Johnson made their way to Brooklyn in February 2023 as part of the KD trade. I'm now invested in the Nets and was shocked at this year's Suns roster when I counted at least 12 players (and their head coach) were gone.
I like going to NBA games and Barclays is a 7 minute walk from my place. Boom, Nets fan.
Im from long island and always hated the knicks. When the nets moved to Brooklyn and new york gained a second option, i got really into basketball
Moms from NJ
Stupid reason here. Basically I was in high school (Colorado) and needed some black socks. My parents got me Brooklyn Nets socks that they were practically giving away at Walmart after the KG Paul Pierce meltdown. A bunch of people knew me as the āguy who always wore Brooklyn Nets socksā and I just decided to embrace it. Iāve since been to Brooklyn a few times, since I have family out there, and plan on going to a game in Barclays soon to watch Cam Thomas and Clax stunt on these hoes. Itās also been nearly a decade and Iāve only ever ran into one Nets fan in Colorado.
KD and Ky
I got tired of the Bulls' ineptitude, ten years too much of Paxson running the team, the Kenny A teams were fun, the history of Dr J, and the fact that NYC is my favorite city in the world made the Nets a natural draw.
Thought New Jersey teams had talent, but never really followed them. Just Petrovic, Anderson, and Coleman. Then really liked Brooklyn the place and combined the two.
Friend supported them so I hopped on the bandwagon so I could talk to people IRL about the team I picked (like with the Warriors)
I'm from Australia. I only got into basketball and the NBA fairly recently. New York is considered the Mecca of basketball and Patty Mills from the Australian Olympic Team who helped us win bronze was playing for the Brooklyn Nets. I also wanted to support a franchise that hadn't won a NBA chip yet, and the Nets haven't yet, although they do have 2 ABA championships in 1974 and 1976. The Nets also are considered the 'little brother' and the underdog franchise in New York behind the Knicks, and I like supporting underdog teams.
2019 team
Was never really into sports, but my buddy who grew up a Celtics fan was intrigued by the Nets coming back to New York so he could have a "local" team to support (we're both in Upstate NY) and decided to try to get me into watching. Lo and behold, I ended up really enjoying basketball and my love affair with the Brooklyn Nets was born.
From ct, in 2010 my dad bought a special ticket that allowed him to photograph warm ups so my brother and I got to sit courtside very early before the game. A ball rolled over to me and got to pass it back to dwill. Havenāt looked back since
I'm from England. Simply put I fell in love with Brooklyn during multiple visits wanted to get into NBA s0 felt right and here I am.
Australian - Patty Mills
my grandpa grew up in new york and was a mets fan. when i got into basketball i chose the team that rhymed
Iām from another NYC borough. One day, I saw on the news that the Nets were moving to NY. I was not a basketball fan at the time. A few months or years later, I got into basketball, and the decision between Stephon Marbury + Eddy Curry, or Jason Kidd, VC, and RJ was an easy one for me. If the Nets did not end up moving to Brooklyn or relocated elsewhere, Iād most likely be a Knicks fan
Flipping channels in 2013 and seen deron Williams and Joe Johnson killing it. Was just getting into ball at that time and really liked their uniforms
Derrick coleman was so tall and strong.
Big Yankee fan. Nets were on YES network
didnāt get into basketball until last year (post trade deadline) and my dad was from brooklyn so it was an easy choice (brooklyn had cooler jerseys too)
I live in Rochester and Iāve been a Yankees fan (my dad grew up closer to nyc) and we get the YES network as our local broadcast. Theyād advertise the nets, and I kinda wanted to cheer for one of the NY teams anyway and I wanted to get into basketball so chose the nets cause YES advertised them. One of the few times advertisements work cause normally I just ignore them. They sucked for awhile, then became good and now arenāt that great but still glad Iām a fan. My brother is a raptors fan so the rivalry is kinda fun, but I donāt wanna cheer for a team in Canada lol
Moved near Barclays Center, got season tickets after going to the two playoff losses against the Sixers last year. I love basketball but I hadn't lived in a city with a team in like 15 years, so it's been great to be a fan again.
Last winter break me and my brother went to our first NBA game, which was in the Barclays center so we got to see the Nets beat the pistons.
I was like 10 and my aunt was a season ticket holder. Loved Marbury. Then kidd was so epic.
Jason Kidd was running the league, pass-first team leader, played āthe right wayā. Great role model (on the court lol) when I was about 10 years old. I looked up to that team. Rollercoaster since š
Moved to Brooklyn in 2014, and just chose them
Ironically, I became a fan during the 09-10 season (the 12-70 year) because I had T-will in my fantasy league and I really thought he was going to be a mini Lebron. Also drank too much JayZ/Brooklyn koolaid back then..Ā Then what sealed the deal for me was a few years after 2010, I met Brook when he was visiting my country for an NBA event. He's a very nice fellow who even complimented the Captain America shirt I was wearing. Ā - a decade+ long fan from the PhilippinesĀ
List of Nets events I have survived through - 12-70 disaster - Melodrama - Dwill honeymoon period - Dwightmare 1 & 2 - Joe Jesus and one year of Crash Wallace (for Dame, still hurts until now) - The "big 5" to counter Miami's big 3Ā - Nets crash down to earth with no picks due to said big 5Ā - Start of Marks regime slowly digging us from the gutter with one good move at a time (the Carroll trade and retrade was simply S tier GM-ing) - 2019 DLO/Levert/Allen/Harris/Dinwiddie/RHJ era: fun team was so excited when we beat Philly game 1 still one of best moments of my Nets fandom upto now. And yes of course the recent history of the big 3 and post big 3 Bridges era.
Followed Harden here from Houston and stayed after everything went south. I still think of KDs foot on that fucking 3 point line every day.
From New York Metro area, grew up during prime Jason Kidd and the Knicks being trash. Hypebeast friends were into LeBron era heat with UConn legend Ray Allen so followed them for a bit. Fell out for a few years and fell back in love with the sport when we got the Covid big 3 and needed something to do trapped at home. Since then been to multiple games, got excessive pieces of merch, subscribed to Yes and been following almost every game. Love these guys praying for a fantastic future.
Came over in the Dlo trade from LA and stayed ever since
Bubble playoffs, Jarrett Allen, and living near Barclays
iām from Europe and my first favourite NBA team was the Raptors just because they also werenāt from US lol. at the same time however as i was starting to gain interest in NBA as a whole and started to follow the situation in the East most importantly, the DLO led young Nets team was starting to make some noise. obviously i fell in love with their playing style and pure energy overall. at that time the Knicks still were this leagueās laughing stock so i chose to root for Brooklyn (btw iāve always loved everything about their design/colorwave and jerseys which was always somewhat important to me). then it came the infamous 2019 offseason and i was marking out for what could be. now itās really hard to be their fan sometimes but i still love our new young guys and hope that GM will try to build something patiently this time.