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Ian Eagle enjoying Nets' ride to Brooklyn

Nets' Deron Williams shoots against Philadelphia 76ers' Spencer

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The reality of being a Nets play-by-play man hit home for Ian Eagle several years into his term when he would run into people who would praise him for his work on WFAN and ask him what he was doing these days.

“Oh, I’m a pediatrician,’’ he jokingly recalled saying. “I’ve changed careers entirely. So I realized the Nets games were not resonating. That’s not the case anymore. People know we’re...

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