Question: Where did the Nets play in the state in which Ellis Island is considered to be located along with the state where the writer died?

They are a member of the Atlantic Division of the Eastern Conference in the National Basketball Association (NBA), as well as an original member of the American Basketball Association (ABA). In 2012 they moved to Brooklyn and were renamed the Brooklyn Nets. The Brooklyn Nets, a professional basketball team based in the New York City borough of Brooklyn, was founded in 1967 and initially played in Teaneck, New Jersey, as the New Jersey Americans, later the New Jersey Nets. <SEP> They are joined in the harbor by Governors Island National Monument, in New York. The Statue of Liberty National Monument and Ellis Island Immigration Museum are managed by the National Park Service and are in both the states of New York and New Jersey. Historic sites under federal management on Manhattan Island include Castle Clinton National Monument; Federal Hall National Memorial; Theodore Roosevelt Birthplace National Historic Site; General Grant National Memorial ("Grant's Tomb"); African Burial Ground National Monument; and Hamilton Grange National Memorial. Hundreds of private properties are listed on the National Register of Historic Places or as a National Historic Landmark such as, for example, the Stonewall Inn in Greenwich Village as the catalyst of the modern gay rights movement. <SEP> at madison square garden, new yorkers can watch the new york knicks play nba basketball, while the new york liberty play in the wnba. the barclays center in brooklyn is home to the brooklyn nets nba basketball team. the nets began playing in brooklyn in 2012, the first major professional sports team to play in the historic borough in half a century. before the merger of the defunct american basketball association with the nba during the 1976 -- 1977 season, the new york nets, who shared the same home stadium (nassau veterans memorial coliseum) on long island with the nhl's new york islanders, were a two - time champion in the aba and starred the famous hall of fame forward julius erving. during the first season of the merger (1976 -- 77), the nets continued to play on long island, although erving's contract had by then been sold to the philadelphia 76ers. the nets transferred to new jersey then next season and became known as the new jersey nets, and later moved to brooklyn prior to the 2012 -- 2013 nba season. <SEP> stansbury island is the second largest island within the great salt lake in the u.s. state of utah. located in tooele county, it is considered an island even though a dirt causeway connects it to the mainland. stansbury island was named after howard stansbury, the leader of a government expedition that surveyed the lake in 1849. <SEP> Her friends included Rosa Maria Assing, Justinus Kerner and Adelbert von Chamisso, along with the young poet Friedrich Hebbel, whom she introduced to patrons and allowed to use her study. From 1842 to 1845 she lived in Jena, before moving back to Hamburg and finally in 1851 to the United States of America with her son, where she died aged 66 in Schenectady, New York From 1827 to 1846 she edited the Pariser Modeblätter as well writing literary articles for it. She also wrote for several other magazines and from 1831 to 1839 edited the young peoples' magazine Iduna.