It didn’t end with the uniforms.
The Nets and Barclays Center announced Friday that the Joe and Clara Wu Tsai foundation if funding the inclusion of a Jean-Michel Basquiat curriculum in New York’s public schools. The program, underway in Brooklyn since April will now expand throughout the five boroughs. In addition, the team and arena will host an art show featuring 150 Basquiat-inspired pieces already created by middle and high school students in Brooklyn.
Basquiat, a Brooklyn native of Haitian and Puerto Rican heritage who died in 1988, is of course the inspiration for the Nets’ popular City Edition jerseys.