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Jay-Z announces new name for Nets

Jay-Z announced the Nets will now be called the Brooklyn Nets when the team moves from New Jersey to its new home in Brooklyn.

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15 years ago

September 27, 2011

UVM Staff

On New York Fox News, Jay-Z announced that the NBA basketball Nets will now be called the Brooklyn Nets when the team moves from New Jersey to its new home at the Barclay Center in Brooklyn, N.Y. next year.

Brooklyn Nets

Jay-Z, whose real name is Sean Carter, owns a stake in the New Jersey Nets. He grew up in Marcy Houses, a public housing complex in Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn.

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