Stack’s Stats: Q&A with Brett Yormark

by Kyle Stack / @KyleStack We’re going to change up Stack’s Stats this week. Normally, I would give you a main dish to set up the rest of the piece, including the second page Q&A section. Well, we got an especially notable interview this week for Stack’s Stats, and that means The Main Dish will be dropped for this edition. In its place is an extended Q&A section with Brett Yormark, who holds double CEO titles with the New Jersey Nets and Brooklyn Sports & Entertainment, which controls Barclays Center. Yormark joined the Nets in January 2005, and, in 2007, helped seal a 20-year deal worth a reported $400 million with Barclays for the naming rights to the Nets’ Brooklyn arena. The Nets plan to move into Barclays Center for the ’12-13 season; the 18,000-seat arena—19,000 for concerts—will open in September with a concert led by Jay-Z, who has a minority ownership stake in the Nets. Yormark spoke about his duties in transitioning the Nets to Bro...