The Best of Frenemies
Nets, Knicks call off 'Cold War' to co-host 2015 NYC All-Star weekend
There were no cutting words exchanged by high-powered owners, not a sign — or billboard — of contention, and nary a boast or barb to be heard as the Brooklyn Nets and New York Knicks declared that there would be three days of peace between them come the winter after next.
Our city’s NBA teams literally met in the middle Wednesday afternoon at Washington Street’s Industria Superstudio in Greenwich Village, declaring a detente in their ongoing feud for local bragging rights by officially revealing that they would share co-hosting duties during the NBA’s All-Star Weekend from Feb. 13-15, 2015.
“Each of them were very receptive to the idea,” NBA commissioner David Stern (pictured above) said after confirming that he had brokered a Glasnost between Knicks owner James Dolan and the Nets’ Mikhail Prokhorov in advance of the landmark announcement. “They thought it would be a good idea to get together, that’s all.”