I hate to say it because the Brooklyn Nets would be great for NY, but the naysayers, NIMBY-ites and anti-everythings are losing the battle but winning the war. By delaying Ratner's project, they make it much more expensive (steel, oil, construction costs all go up) and make the deal even more difficult -- not to mention his absurd (from a business sense) deal with ACORN and Bertha Lewis -- if not unlikely.