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Nets expected to thrive with 'Brooklyn' brand

The Nets' impending exodus from East Rutherford hardly will create the kind of sorrow reminiscent of that historic day in 1957, when Walter O'Malley moved his team 3,000 miles to Chavez Ravine.

But will the Nets' anticipated arrival in Brooklyn - right there at the Atlantic Yards spot where the Dodgers could have gone after Ebbets Field was closed - be enough to bring back that singular identity...

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