Remember how Nets CEO Brett Yormark was certain that the arena would open this season? Let's go back to a 12/2/08 interview with a skeptical Craig Carton of WFAN.
BY: A realistic time frame is in Brooklyn, operating in the summer of 2011, being there for the '11-'12 season.
CC: So being there in the fall of 2011, so three years from this season--
BY: That’s correct--
CC: --you think that you’ll have everything built, the infrastructure done, and you will bounce a basketball in an arena in Brooklyn in three years?
BY: Absolutely. Convinced of it.
Now, of course, Yormark is convinced the arena will open in the fall of 2012. It's much more likely--a lot of contractual money depends on it, which is one reason there's so much after-hours work.
But we'll keep watching for that after-hours work.
BY: A realistic time frame is in Brooklyn, operating in the summer of 2011, being there for the '11-'12 season.
CC: So being there in the fall of 2011, so three years from this season--
BY: That’s correct--
CC: --you think that you’ll have everything built, the infrastructure done, and you will bounce a basketball in an arena in Brooklyn in three years?
BY: Absolutely. Convinced of it.
Now, of course, Yormark is convinced the arena will open in the fall of 2012. It's much more likely--a lot of contractual money depends on it, which is one reason there's so much after-hours work.
But we'll keep watching for that after-hours work.
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