The Brooklyn Nets, one of the few NBA Teams who don’t have an affiliation with a D-League team, are expected to own and operate one by the 2016-2017 season according to David Aldridge.
“The Nets, which had a hybrid agreement with the Springfield Armor for three years before the team was sold and moved to Grand Rapids in 2014, where it became the Pistons’ D-League team, hope to have a new D-League team in place that would play in Brooklyn in 2016, and perhaps on Long Island in subsequent years.”
“The goal is to have one next year,” GM Billy King said Friday. “Not having a team [last season], we didn’t use Fort Wayne. We worked with Boston and Maine. The way it worked last year, we timed it so when we had Markel [Brown], we worked it so we could send him to Maine.”
It seems like sooner rather than later that all NBA organizations will own a D-League team and have a minor league system like Major League Baseball.
Some possible homes for a Nets D-League team are LIU Brooklyn, maybe the Barclays Center, and the new and revamped Nassau Coliseum in Uniondale.
