When the Nets moved to Brooklyn last year, many of the players kept their homes in New Jersey, trading the inconvenience a longer commute to work for the comfort of a suburban home life.
Paul Pierce is going all-in, though. The former Celtic who was traded to the Nets this summer has moved to Brooklyn in more ways than one, relocating his family to the borough and becoming a part of the community, just as he did in Boston.
“My family loves it, loving the city,” Pierce told SLAM magazine. “They’be taken to the crowds, to the restaurants. It seems like a good adjustment.”
Pierce, his wife and their three children looked at the trade as an opportunity for an “experience,” Pierce said. He has figured out the traffic that gave him trouble immediately after the trade and hopes to recreate the type of winning culture he helped continue and re-establish with the Celtics.
“I think Brooklyn, they’re setting the foundation,” Pierce said. “So they can be in the category with the Yankees, with t...
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