Published November 13, 2008
As of this morning, the Nets have received 1,205 resumes as part of the team's offer to distribute the resumes to the team's 120 sponsors. The Nets are also offering unemployed fans up to four free tickets plus inclusion to a Nov. 22 job fair at the Izod Center. The Nets will make 300 tickets available to those who register for the program for each of five selected home games at the Izod Center. The program was announced on Tuesday, Nov. 11. Meanwhile, Barclays this morning publicly reaffirmed its 20-year naming rights commitment for the Nets' planned Brooklyn arena. Groundbreaking on the arena has been pushed back to '09 from '08. "Barclays is unwavering in its commitment to the Barclays Center and we are very pleased with our long-term alliance with our great partners, the Nets and Forest City Ratner Companies," said Gerard LaRocca, Chief Administrative Officer of Barclays in a statement. "We are very excited about being part of the continued renaissance of Brooklyn and we eagerly look forward to opening night at the Barclays Center" (John Lombardo, SportsBusiness Journal). Nets President & CEO Brett Yormark said, “Hopefully, in the next couple of months there’ll be some great news on a groundbreaking date and it’s something our … ownership is working towards and we will get to Brooklyn.” Yormark: “I’m not concerned necessarily about the financing … so I’m looking at a groundbreaking sometime in late spring hopefully in Brooklyn for the 2011-12 NBA season” (“America’s Nightly Scoreboard,” Fox Business, 11/12).
