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04-08-2016, 11:21 PM
Brooklyn's NBA team could have been called the Swamp Dragons
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Imagine all those Brooklyn hipsters running around in Swamp Dragons T-shirts.*
It sounds too good be true, right? But it really could have happened. Here's how.*
SEE ALSO: How Steph Curry became the NBA's most Vine-worthy star (http://mashable.com/2015/04/01/stephen-curry-vine-bruhhhhh/)
ESPN's Zach Lowe published an oral history (http://espn.go.com/nba/story/_/id/15155466/once-nets-seriously-considered-becoming-swamp-dragons) Friday, recounting how, two decades ago, the New Jersey Nets nearly changed their name to the New Jersey Swamp Dragons. Even for lifelong NBA (http://mashable.com/category/nba/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial) fans, this a deep piece of fun basketball trivia. For everyone else, it's a hilarious tale of what might have been.*
Here's how Jon Spoelstra, who was the New Jersey Nets president at the time, recounts the idea coming up.* Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/04/08/brooklyn-nets-swamp-dragons/)
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Imagine all those Brooklyn hipsters running around in Swamp Dragons T-shirts.*
It sounds too good be true, right? But it really could have happened. Here's how.*
SEE ALSO: How Steph Curry became the NBA's most Vine-worthy star (http://mashable.com/2015/04/01/stephen-curry-vine-bruhhhhh/)
ESPN's Zach Lowe published an oral history (http://espn.go.com/nba/story/_/id/15155466/once-nets-seriously-considered-becoming-swamp-dragons) Friday, recounting how, two decades ago, the New Jersey Nets nearly changed their name to the New Jersey Swamp Dragons. Even for lifelong NBA (http://mashable.com/category/nba/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial) fans, this a deep piece of fun basketball trivia. For everyone else, it's a hilarious tale of what might have been.*
Here's how Jon Spoelstra, who was the New Jersey Nets president at the time, recounts the idea coming up.* Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/04/08/brooklyn-nets-swamp-dragons/)
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