On Friday, Barclays Center will finally be open. It's not Opening Night, but the official opening and first look inside. Already, in anticipation of the ribbon-cutting, there's stories about the food at the concession stands and art in the oculus.
Brett Yormark said it hit him, finally, during a 6 a.m. tour of the Barclays Center Monday. "We’re here. We almost completed the journey." And he assured Stefan Bondy that the arena will be "100 percent" ready when Jay-Z takes the stage on Sept. 28.
Where will the Nets stand in the Eastern Conference playoff picture? The first of the web's season previews, from NBC Sports and HoopsWorld, paint a positive but not wildly enthusiastic picture of the Nets 2012-13 season. Think 4 or 5 seed.
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One advantage of having so many players in camp so early is they get to join in community events, like Thursday's "Dads Take Your Kids To School Day" in Brooklyn. Deron Williams, Jerry Stackhouse and Keith Bogans were all there to help out.
Steve Stoute, Jay-Z's partner in Translation, the ad agency that's worked on the Nets' Brooklyn transition, talks to Media Bistro about the role Jay-Z has played in the design of the Nets' logo and about the next collaboration between the two.
Denis Hamil is a native of blue collar Brooklyn and has long supported the Nets move to Brooklyn and uses the occasion of Friday's ribbon-cutting ceremony to write about the value of home teams. He argues that it's the kids who will drive loyalty.
Even before the doors open, the architecture reviews have started for Barclays Center. The New Yorker review, out Wednesday, is a critique, but only of the building's exterior, its scale. It's about the lessons learned from the process.
