About half the Nets roster spent the entire four-month layoff in the belly of the beast. Jarrett Allen and Joe Harris and Garrett Temple and Dzanan Musa and Rodions Kurucs, among others, spent their days, weeks and ultimately months in their Brooklyn apartments, being helped by the Nets front office, but still confined by the history around them.
There were deliveries of groceries and other essentials plus training equipment early on, but beneath their high rises, Brooklyn became the epicenter of a worldwide pandemic that killed 5,000 borough residents.