Nets to Stick D-League Team on Long Island

Trade ya… we’ll take the New York Islanders and we’ll give you a NBA Developmental League team in 3 years. Good deal!

According to an article in the New York Post, the Brooklyn Nets will be purchasing an NBA D-League club to play out of the Nassau County Veterans Memorial Coliseum on Long Island, the former home arena of your New York Islanders.

The plan, according to the Post, would be for the new team to play its first season out of Brooklyn’s Barclays Center in 2016-17 before relocating to the newly renovated Nassau Coliseum for 2017-18.

Consulting my Brooklyn-Long Island sports uniform chart, I believe this means the team will be wearing black and white uniforms with a blue and orange alternate?

This will bring the total amount of teams in the D-League to 22 for 2016-17 with new franchises to be run by the Charlotte Hornets and Chicago Bulls joining the Nets.