When the Nets made Isaiah Whitehead the 42nd overall pick in the 2016 NBA Draft, the Coney Island product became the first Brooklyn born baller to call the Barclays Center home at the NBA level.
Rawle Alkins – a Canarsie native who once attended Christ the King High School in Middle Village, Queens – could be next.
Alkins initially entered the NBA Draft last year after his freshman year with the Arizona Wildcats – the same school that produced Rondae Hollis-Jefferson and where he played with projected overall No.