Long Island are looking for their first-ever NBA G League Championship title Friday when they battle the Rio Grande Valley Vipers in the win-or-go-home game in the league Finals at the Island Federal Arena in Stony Brook, NY
It’s been 43 years since a professional basketball team based on the Island won a championship. Julius Erving won the 1976 ABA championship in the last game before the NBA and ABA merged to form the modern NBA.
The Nets won Game 1 of the Finals handily. Long Island, playing at home, controlled the game, setting the tone early in the first quarter.