The release of the calendar of the Long Island Nets for the upcoming season has a little originality. Based at the Nassau Coliseum, the team affiliated with the Brooklyn franchise will thus be exported 600 kilometers north of the “Big Apple”, on the Montreal side, to Laval more precisely.
A total of six games will be held in the Place Bell arena, usually reserved for hockey and with a capacity of 10,000. The Long Island Nets will meet the Raptors 905 on January 24 and 26, then the Greensboro Swarm on February 5, the Delaware Blue Coats on the 8th, before finishing with a new double confrontation against the Memphis Hustle, on March 13 and 14.
The Canadian public may have the opportunity to see the young Chinese player Yongxi Cui, who is expected to sign with the Nets via a “two-way contract”.
These Canadian escapades will be an opportunity for the “Nets” brand to test and increase its popularity. No doubt the experience will also be closely followed by other franchises and the NBA, since Montreal is regularly cited as a market likely to one day host an NBA franchise.
Two-way contract : Designed to create a new bridge between the NBA and the G-League, this type of contract allows each team to secure the services of two or three additional players, to have them play mainly in their affiliated development league franchise but also up to 50 matches in the NBA.
