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But residents of New York City referred to the place as a swamp in a negative way. The Meadowlands is a wetlands area right outside New York City. Fans where not happy and the state of New Jersey was upset too. The Nets needed a majority of the owners to allow the name change, so they began courting the most powerful owners like Jerry Buss and Bill Davidson. The ownership of the Nets agreed to change the name and for a moment it looked like the NBA would get a Swamp Dragons franchise. The league, while opposed to the name change, actually supported the franchise. In fact Vegas had a lot of interesting bets regarding the name change once they heard about it.

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Several free bet offers were placed that the Nets would not go through with it at the time. But the Nets went forward with the name change. The league felt if the Nets could focus on winning that fan support and merchandising would follow. The NBA wanted the franchise to focus more on substance of flash. They had star players like Julius Erving who had played with the Nets. Their success was one of the reasons they were added to the NBA when the ABA merged in 1976. The Nets were one of the most successful ABA franchises winning two ABA championships one in 1974 and another in the last year of the ABA in 1976. The Nets began life as the New York Americans during the first year of the American Basketball Association, and changed their name to the Nets the following season. The overall thinking was that the Nets may not have had a great history, but they did have a history and an important one at that. NBA Commissioner David Stern is reportedly to have said 'This is the stupidest f-ing idea I've ever heard.' And fans mocked the team too. ESPN quickly picked up on the story and fans everywhere knew what the Nets wanted to do, and to the Nets surprise fans didn't like it. This move let the proverbial cat out of the bag. With the Toronto team wanting the name Dragons it pushed Nets leadership into copyrighting the name Swamp Dragons. But before the Nets could move forward with their idea the NBA announced that it was expanding once again, this time into the Canadian cities of Vancouver and Toronto - and Toronto just so happened to be considering naming their new team the Dragons. The idea was a simple, latch onto the glitz and the glam of bright colors and goofy mascots and cash in. They were also last in merchandising sales being surpassed by expansion teams like Charlotte, and Minnesota. They were not New York's team, that was the Knicks, and they had sucked for most of their NBA history. Relegated to East Rutherford, NJ, a small city across the Hackensack River from Union, New Jersey in the New York City metropolitan area. On top of this, teams like the Charlotte Hornets had catchy new uniforms that fans ate up. Then, add Michael Jordan and the 1992 Dream Team, fans could not get enough of the NBA. The 1980s had been great for the NBA, it added 5 new teams, and the Magic-Bird rivalry had driven fans to the arenas like nothing before.

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The league had just experienced its first full explosion into American society and pop culture. To fully understand this you have to go back to the early 1990s.

are the Swamp Dragons? what is a Swamp Dragon? In the summer of 1994 the New Jersey Nets considered rebranding their franchise the Swamp Dragons. And if comedy is what you like that the tale of the New Jersey Swamp Dragons is for you. A team who habitually loses and does so many stupid things that it becomes comical.

They've been the eastern conferences version of the Clippers. HOME NBA History Advertise About US Write for us Press -įor most of their history the Nets have been one of the most maligned teams in the NBA. (like this MACTAC: ) No significant change happened.Ĭan you please help us to create a working touch-screen table? We did everything like we read on forums/blogs.The story of the New Jersey Swamp Dragons Then we tried to put a very thin rear projectile film on the silicone coating. No significant change (maybe a little result on moving fingers), but the silicone layer is adhesive (picks up dust and dirt) and it wears out fast. The silicone layer is only a few milimeters thick. (only when the fingers are still, there is recognition) Later we did silicone coating (FBS + xylene). When we are moving our fingers, there is no detection. The web camera is 85cm down from the plexiglass We experienced good results in recognition, as long as there is no movement.

What/how we did: 860mm diameter, 10mm thick, round shaped plexiglass / 30pcs IR LEDs on sides (in circle surrounding)

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