The New Jersey Nets plan on eventually moving to Brooklyn, New York. There's no guarantee the team will be called the Brooklyn Nets once they do move, but we at InsideHoops.com like the sound of the Brooklyn Nets name and hope it gets used.

The move, which will bring the Nets to the Atlantic Yards area in Brooklyn, is taking a long time. There are still people living in homes where the eventual arena complex will be. They need to have their homes sold, get paid, move and clear out, so the entire land area can be torn down for the complex to be built.

As far as we've heard, the key political hurdles have already been handled, though lawsuits against the project still exist. We haven't recently looked into the details or how serious an obstacle they may be.

It'll be much easier for New Yorkers to get to Nets games once the team moves to Brooklyn. A big stack of subway lines will go right near the arena. People from all across Manhattan will get there with ease. But, it'll be very hard for people from New Jersey to attend the games, unless they live in the part of Jersey that's right near NYC.

We haven't timed the ride, but a general estimate is, if someone is in midtown Manhattan and takes the subway to where the arena will be, it'll probably be around 20 minutes. Maybe 30 at the most. From downtown Manhattan it'll be even quicker, like maybe 15 or 20 minutes.

If people come from Jersey and drive, they're probably better off parking in Manhattan and taking the subway to Brooklyn, instead of driving all the way to the arena.

As of early 2008, the earliest the Brooklyn Nets will exist will be sometime in 2010. Probably mid or late 2010. But that seems overly optimistic at this point since it's a giant project that isn't even close to starting yet. We're guessing it won't really happen until 2011 or even 2012.

The Atlantic Yards Brooklyn Nets development isn't just going to be a basketball arena. It'll have "middle-income and market-rate housing," commercial offices, shopping, a hotel, and wide open space on over 8 acres of land.

The developer, Forest City Ratner Companies, hired world-renowned architect Frank Gehry and landscape architect Laurie Olin to make it happen.

The cost of the project is apparently going to be in excess of $4 billion.

The eventual Brooklyn Nets arena does have a name. It'll be the Barclays Center, sponsored by the bank.

The Brooklyn Nets location will be at the intersection of Atlantic and Flatbush Avenues, and bounded by Pacific and Dean Streets and Vanderbilt Avenue. It'll span 22 acres. Including the arena, the entire complex will be 17 separate buildings.

There will be 336,000 square feet of office space, and 6.36 million square feet of residential space. The arena will be 850,000 square feet. There will be 247,000 square feet of retail space. And the hotel will be 165,000 square feet.