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Posted: **Wed Dec 15, 2010 4:12 am**

I really hope not.....

http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/blog/ball_d ... nba-295887

There are signs the New Jersey Nets are considering renaming themselves the "Brooklyn New Yorkers" in two years when they move from Jersey to the NYC metropolitan area, and we just can't help but wonder if the Nets, or New Yorkers, are a lot better than this.

Two Philadelphia lawyers have filed for trademark protection for the name, along with three possible logos.

[Related: Turf war! Nets buy giant billboard near Madison Square Garden]

NetsDaily did a little digging, and this is what it came up with:

The logos, more concepts than finished drawings, make it clear the trademarks are for a Brooklyn basketball team. In one, a basketball player straddles the Brooklyn Bridge. In another, the words, "Brooklyn New Yorkers" fronts a basketball featuring a world map while in a third, another version of "Brooklyn New Yorkers" is imposed on a basketball. The Patent and Trademark Office continues to review the applications.

The decision to seek trademark protection around the time the team informed the NBA it would be changing its name from the "New Jersey Nets". The NBA requires a team to file two years prior to a name change but it does not require a team to state what the new name will be. Under an agreement with the Empire State Development Corp., the Nets' new name must include either "Brooklyn" or "New York" in its name.

This is where I have to remind you that the Nets are under no obligation to change their name, because they've been the New York Nets before. The franchise was originally an ABA team that played out in Long Island, named the "Nets" so as to fit in with the already-established New York Jets, and New York Mets. "Nets" never was, and doesn't have to be, a Jersey thing.

So there's really nothing wrong with the Brooklyn Nets, decision-makers. The "Brooklyn" lettering in the proposed logo is pretty cool, it looks like the sort of tagging you see on a subway car, but the "Brooklyn New Yorkers?"

Posted: **Wed Dec 15, 2010 5:41 am**

might as well be called da Crooklyn Dodgers

Posted: **Wed Dec 15, 2010 5:48 am**

I still don't see the problem with Brooklyn Nets.. It fits in with the ongoing New york '' team ending in ets'' theme.

Posted: **Wed Dec 15, 2010 6:25 am**

I'm sorry, I hang my hat up if this happens.

Might become a **** Knix fan out of spite.

Posted: **Wed Dec 15, 2010 7:32 am**

How bout the Brooklyn Suck-A-Fellas?

Posted: **Wed Dec 15, 2010 12:54 pm**

Brooklyn Nets all the way...

Posted: **Wed Dec 15, 2010 12:59 pm**

Little Italia wrote:How bout the Brooklyn Suck-A-Fellas?

Wow thanks for that.

Brooklyn Nets are fine I don't see why we have to change it. You want to change the logo the colors whatever thats fine but just leave the Nets name alone.

Posted: **Wed Dec 15, 2010 12:59 pm**

I just read this on yahoo too and wanted to check here if anyone mentioned it. No way in hell Im gonna be a fan of a team called the new yorkers. Ive been adamant that I will not support them when they move to Brooklyn but theres always been a sliver of possibility that I would. But not if this happens. I might not even have a team anymore and just watch for fun until NJ gets another team to play at the rock.

Posted: **Wed Dec 15, 2010 1:43 pm**

Please no.

Posted: **Wed Dec 15, 2010 6:25 pm**

Little Italia wrote:How bout the Brooklyn Suck-A-Fellas?

That's cute, you used the pet name your life partner has for your wang as your screen name.

Posted: **Wed Dec 15, 2010 8:55 pm**

im sick and tired of all the lil knick fans coming on here and giving their 2 cents its not welcomed you dont like it keep on your board plain and simple, and what the hell is a knickerbocker anyway, you guys havent been relevant in the last 9 years, you guys win a few games and its as if you are coming of a championship season, nuff said...

Posted: **Wed Dec 15, 2010 9:36 pm**

vincecarter4pres wrote:I'm sorry, I hang my hat up if this happens.

Yup, you know my stance on the issue.

Posted: **Wed Dec 15, 2010 10:19 pm**

Seems pretty similar to how people purchase domain names and then hope someone buys it from them later since it fits their product / service / whatever... I'm not really buying that the Nets are considering a name this stupid.

Posted: **Thu Dec 16, 2010 2:07 am**

^^That had to be Force resurrected to get waived that quick. :lol:

Posted: **Thu Dec 16, 2010 3:11 am**

This must have been an idea from one of Proky's guys in Russia cuz there no way any true employee or fan of the Nets would come up with a name that ridiculous.

Posted: **Thu Dec 16, 2010 3:25 am**

vincecarter4pres wrote:^^That had to be Force resurrected to get waived that quick.

Aside from I.P. how does RealGM know when a Previously banned poster makes a reappearance?

Posted: **Thu Dec 16, 2010 12:12 pm**

^I think that's the only way, unless he went on the General Board and started his shenanigans again

Posted: **Thu Dec 16, 2010 1:22 pm**

If you haven't already joined please do

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=149843188364503

Posted: **Thu Dec 16, 2010 2:18 pm**

^Done and done. Can't we just keep it as the Nets? That name has a heritage behind it.

Posted: **Thu Dec 16, 2010 5:37 pm**

Keep the Nets franchise going...the "New Yorkers"...horrible, I cant even picture that on a uniform...there has to be some sort of Russian logic to that...ugh

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