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Kim Kardashian's Boyfriend Is Ready For Brooklyn Nets-NY Knicks Rivalry
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Published Apr 5, 2011
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Kris Humphries, a forward for the NJ Nets and also boyfriend of Kim Kardashian, visited the Barclays Center, the former site of a Frank Gehry-designed sports arena (now it's something that look like an airplane hanger a modified airplane hanger), where his team is supposed to play. In fact, Barclays Center CEO Brett Yormark, who happens to be the Nets CEO, says the area will open on September 28, 2012. And Humphries can't wait.
He told reporters, "Hopefully we can get everyone in Brooklyn to come out and support us and build the tradition the Knicks have... There is a rivalry now. Just think about what it will be like out in Brooklyn." And the Wall Street Journal's Jason Gay also attended the press event:
On Monday I rode my bike in Brooklyn, because I live there, and because that's what terrible people do in Brooklyn—load up their hemp backpacks with baguettes and copies of "Das Kapital" and ride their bikes everywhere, ruining civic life in New York City.
But lo, the outlaw behavior gets crazier. I rode my Satan bike in a Satanic bike lane to see the Nets. The New Jersey Nets—currently rattling around the trunk of the NBA's Eastern Conference—are coming soon to the magnificent birthplace of Lena Horne and Woody Allen and the adopted home of a lot of dudes who can't stop yapping about the final LCD Soundsystem show. (To take every lazy Brooklyn stereotype to the extreme, please read this story while chomping an artisanal pickle. And growing a mustache. And converting your Satan bike to a single speed.)
According to Gay, "[Humphries] said he wasn't sure if he would live in Brooklyn, though he'd heard "there are some real great places to stay." He said he didn't mind if parents wanted to bring their babies into Park Slope bars. OK, just kidding about that last part."
As for rumors that the Barclays Center will be the only thing built at the Atlantic Yards, based on developer Forest City Ratner's SEC filings, Mayor Bloomberg said, "I talked to Bruce Ratner as late as 30 minutes ago, and let me tell you, he thinks his business is going very well out there and he's very optimistic about Atlantic Yards." He also sarcastically explained that SEC filings are supposed to point out any and all potential problems, "It does say that the world could come to an end. And it might. It does say everybody could give up watching basketball -- that's a possibility."
Oh, and Kris? Apparently Kim says she'd accept your marriage proposal, if you want to make one!
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Jen Chung is a former WNYC and Gothamist editor.
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