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Nets to push back tip-off times to combat empty seats

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NEWARK, N.J.

The Nets, who host the Golden State Warriors at 7 p.m. local time Wednesday night, were pushing through plans for later start times to combat late arrivals at games.

When Deron Williams lined up for his first Nets home game last week, Prudential Center was at least one-third empty. By the end of the night, an announced crowd of 15,836, still a non-sellout, filled the place.

The Nets hierarchy cringed at the "late-arriving crowd," although a victory-challenged team probably had just as much to do with it.

So to answer empty seats at the start of games and the NBA's lowest home attendance for a second-straight year, the Nets were headed toward returning to 7:30 p.m. starts next season, scheduled to be their last in Newark before moving to Brooklyn. The later start time should be formally adopted after the season.

The Nets flew 3,500 miles to find two sellouts in London over the weekend. Before those games, the Nets, 30th in attendance at The Rock with a draw of 13,207, had one sellout: against the Knicks on Feb. 12.

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