We’ve written a bit about the basketball advantages the Nets have in basing their D-League team in Brooklyn this season: the parent club and affiliate play in the same venue, Barclays Center; practice at the same facility: HSS Training Center, and under the guidance of the same front office staff.
But that’s only going to last for one season, Starting in 2017-18, the Long Island Nets will play at the renovated Nassau Coliseum, which is also owned by Mikhail Prokhorov’s Brooklyn Sports & Entertainment, and presumably practice somewhere closer to Uniondale than Brooklyn.
Alton Byrd manages the business side for the Long Island team as vice president for business operations.