The Man Who Would Be Kings  Wannabe 'Brooklyn Nets' Owner Ratner
Already Is a Man for All Subsidies  Say what you will about
mega-developer Bruce Ratner; he's not afraid to wear a big hat.
Last month, as part of his campaign to buy the New Jersey Nets
and shift them to Brooklyn, Ratner hauled in a passel of NBA
senior citizens—the press called them "stars," but that's a bit
much to pin on the likes of Pearl Washington and Sidney
Green—for a photo op at Junior's, where Ratner promptly slapped
World B. Free's too-large fedora on his own balding pate and
left it there while enthusing about the glories of bringing pro
hoops to the Borough of Kings.  For those who've followed
Ratner's career as the self-anointed savior of Brooklyn, the
only surprise might be that there's any hat too large for his
noggin. Soft-spoken and nebbishy he may be, but this, after all,
is the billionaire who dropped Metrotech on an unsuspecting
populace, who boasted to New York magazine that he hoped to
forge a "New Brooklyn" out of the dr