Carlesimo first casualty of Game 7 flop
P.J. walks plank after Nets tank against Bulls at Barclays Center
The gloom was palpable, and somewhat eery, after a night that began with such high expectations and ended with a heartbreaking thud as the Brooklyn Nets saw their historic inaugural season come to a calamitous completion before a sellout crowd at Downtown’s Barclays Center.
Riding along the F, B, D, N and R lines Saturday night as the city continued to implement its alleged “FastTrack” program, it was easy to envision the scene nearly six decades earlier — the subways actually ran much faster then — when the beloved Dodgers dropped Game 7 of the 1956 World Series to the hated Yankees at Ebbets Field.
There were fans of all ages decked out in their “Blacked Out Nets” garb, many of them hoping beyond hope that “this was just the beginning”, as Nets owner Mikhail Prokhorov had promised just shy of two weeks earlier prior to Game 1.