It shouldn’t be much of a surprise, if any. The NBA’s Brooklyn Nets and WNBA’s New York Liberty, with their intertwined ownership, are slowly moving closer together. With Joe Tsai the principal owner of the Liberty and minority owner of Nets, the relationship was bound to grow and we’re starting to see it.
Two pieces of news Wednesday give hints of what’s likely to be closer collaboration between the two teams, particularly once Tsai takes over the Nets from Mikhail Prokhorov. Although scheduled for the 2021-22 season, the New York Post has reported the two men are in talks to not only accelerate the Nets purchase, but add the operating companies that run Barclays Center and Nassau Coliseum to an expanded deal.