Clara Wu Tsai, as co-owner of the Nets and Liberty with her husband Joe, regularly sits courtside at Barclays Center with both her children and celebrities of all manner. She is, it can be argued, a more visible presence than Joe who’s often in China or elsewhere tending to Alibaba, the e-commerce giant, and other businesses.
And as she said Saturday night while hosting 25 children of incarcerated mothers at the 40/40 Club, she plans on being equally visible — and heard — in pushing her personal agendas of social justice and economic mobility. She likened having an NBA team to a “megaphone” on the issues she and the players hold dear.