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Thu, Jul 15th 2010, 19:35
Jordan introduced as a NJ Net
Leaving home and the two-time defending champion Los Angeles Lakers for the NBA’s worst team was a rather easy decision for Jordan Farmar.
If the former UCLA point guard stayed with Kobe Bryant and company, he would always be the trusted backup with a couple of rings — ‘Little Jordie.’
Coming to the New Jersey Nets, Farmar sees the chance to play more, to get away from the triangle offence and to develop into a starter under Avery Johnson.
It’s a no-brainer, even if the Nets posted a 12-70 record last season.
Remarkably, it also was almost the same line that forward Travis Outlaw, guard Anthony Morrow and centre Johan Petro uttered on Thursday in their first meeting with the media since joining the team in the recent free-agent frenzy.
“It’s going to be fun,” Farmar said of the move, which earned him a new US$12-million, three-year contract. “It’s going to be interesting to be part of something special, to be part of the rebuilding process. We have a new owner, a new coach, working on a new arena, some big things with this organization are heading in the right direction. They are committed to winning, and that’s what I am all about.”
Comments
Lakergirl | on 10/8/10
No goodbye to your L.A fans? No thanks for the support? No I’m going to miss you guys?
If you would publicly go out and say thanks to us or at the least goodbye I think alot of us would be a little less hurt. Cause just in case you were wondering it did hurt and it still does.
Goodbye, we’ll miss you and good luck.
esther hoffman | on 7/8/10
i will miss your quick hands and the vertical leap. but i will be a New jersey Nets fan.
Dan Woodard | on 17/7/10
Guess I’m a Nets fan now.