LOS ANGELES—I was marooned in California when the new-look "Boston Nets" were introduced in Brooklyn Thursday, so I watched that news conference at the Rusted Turtle on my ratty laptop. The wonder of vaguely reliable technology! But maybe a little distance was appropriate. This complicated and emotional migration still feels faraway, alien, hard to process—snazzy and significant, for sure, but not completely real. But it is real. Now actually real. There they were, in person: Kevin Garnett and Paul Pierce, Celtics giants, live under all that steel at Atlantic and Flatbush, along with their 2012-13 Boston teammate, Jason Terry. The...
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