NBA owners approve Nets' move to Brooklyn
Shot of the Barclays Center under construction in January, 2012. Credit: Barclays Center Media Relations
The NBA's Board of Governors unanimously approved the relocation of the Nets to Brooklyn on Friday.
The new 18,200-seat Barclays Center on Atlantic and Flatbush Avenues will host the Brooklyn Nets at the start of the 2012-13 season.
"We would like to express our heartfelt thanks to David Stern and the NBA team owners for their role in making the Nets' move to Brooklyn a reality,'' Nets principal owner Mikhail Prokhorov and Barclays Center developer and majority owner Bruce Ratner said in a joint statement. "We are looking forward to the opening of Barclays Center on Sept. 28 and to the start of the next NBA season as the Brooklyn Nets.''
It will be the eighth arena the franchise has called home, including the Long Island Arena, Island Garden and Nassau Coliseum.
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