By Ryan Mayer. The Nets changed their name and location from New Jersey to Brooklyn prior to the 2012-13 season moving to their now current home in the Barclays Center.

“Swamp Dragon” is by Alex Konstad, whose work you can follow on deviantART and Tumblr, where he has plenty more fantastic creature paintings. Daily Newsletter Get the best tech, science, and ...

Editor's note: This story was originally published on April 8, 2016. Over the summer, I enlisted several design experts, including Tom O'Grady, the NBA's former creative director, to help me rank ...

The Swamp Dragons idea was dead — “If your own team votes no, you can’t go ahead with something like this,” Spoelstra said — and the Nets ended ended up tinkering with a number of ...

That's right, the New Jersey Swamp Dragons was close to becoming an actual NBA team. This wasn't a fan-inspired movement, either. The Nets thought of the idea and presented it to then-commissioner ...

That desperation led to some kooky ideas, none kookier than the recently-unearthed plan to rename them the Swamp Dragons. Now that’s some raw, uncut ’90s garishness — it’s incredible.

— Swamp Dragons (@Netswamp) January 25, 2023. When the idea was proposed, all 7 of the Nets owners at the time voted yes. The league spent $500,000 to protect the name and any artwork or other ...