EAST RUTHERFORD N.J. (AP) Some 30 people protested the proposed sale and move of the New Jersey Nets to Brooklyn, N.Y., on Sunday outside the team's home arena.

The protest came two days after the Nets' current owners agreed to sell the franchise to Brooklyn developer Bruce Ratner for $300 million.

``Until they tell me this is not going to go through, that's how long I'll be out here,'' said Mike Kozlowski of Waldwick, who helped organize the demonstration at the Nets' first home game since the sale was announced. ``Anybody who is willing to keep the Nets in New Jersey is my friend.''

Kozlowski hung a banner that said ``Keep the Nets in New Jersey'' on a fence around the outside of the arena. He also had posters for distribution, including ``Brooklyn Fuhgettaboudit'' and another with ``Brooklyn'' inside a circle with a line scored through it.

Inside the arena, there was no discernible negative reaction from the near-sellout crowd when the Nets were introduced.

There also were no banners or signs, because security members confiscated them as people entered the building. The Nets beat the Boston Celtics 110-91.

The Nets can't move until Ratner builds an arena in Brooklyn, and many protesters hope he runs into the same problems that the current Nets ownership encountered in trying to build an arena in Newark.

Chris Suswal, a former New Jersey native now living in Brooklyn, called the plan to move the team to Brooklyn ridiculous.

``Like many of the residents of Brooklyn, we want Brooklyn to be as it is, Brooklyn,'' Suswal said. ``We don't want people's homes demolished. We don't want a multiconglomerate $2.5 billion complex to come in. That's not what Brooklyn is about. It's about a neighborhood, a community.''