Taking a Long Road to Brooklyn ; Nets Facing Lean Transition Years
The Record, Bergen County, NJ › July 10, 2008
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EAST RUTHERFORD To listen to the Nets on Wednesday was to believe their hiring of Yi Jianlian will do more for Sino-American relations than Nixon's 1972 trip to China.
The Olympics didn't break out in East Rutherford, although the local basketball team tried making a demonstration sport out of synchronized brand-building. The Nets hung news conference banners carrying warm greetings in Yi's native tongue, and they spoke of appealing to Asian communities here and abroad while erecting a sturdy bridge back to Eastern Conference contention.See the full content of this document
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Taking a Long Road to Brooklyn ; Nets Facing Lean Transition Years
Lost in translation was this unforgiving fact: The Nets will be near impossible to watch from here to Brooklyn.
For the next two years, at least, theirs will be the international language of sub-mediocrity. And no, that won't help their transparent purs...See the full content of this document
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