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Nets President Irina Pavlova has a couple of nice pics of the HSS Training Center being transformed into a nighttime disco club with that amazing view.

So where's the pics?

kamaze wrote:So where's the pics?

Irina Pavlova's instagram account. The link in the Nets Daily tweet.

I couldn't just post the instagram URL because something's recently changed in the RealGM software that automatically parses it and tries to put instagram tags around it. When that happens, the instagram photos don't show up as embedded here because Irina has her instagram account set to private.

But if you click on the instagram link in the Nets Daily tweet I posted, it will take you directly to pics that she posted.

I suppose I should have expected that from the practice center considering who the owner is LOL

With the new and shiny HSSTC with that fabulous skyline view, has everyone forgotten about the "other" practice court?



This old practice court at Barclays was intended to have a more neighborhood feel with passerbys on the street able to peek in from the windows. Kind of a shame that all the forethought that went into that will now be rendered a bit moot with everyone salivating over the new practice court with the amazing view at HSS TC.

With the D-League team sharing the HSSTC this season with the NBA team, I believe they'll have different periods of time assigned to each team. Will one of them end up using the old practice court at Barclays instead of the new one at the HSSTC? Or will they just stick with the HSSTC and alternating occupancy shifts? Spending their time cooling their heels at the rooftop lounge when the other team is using the court at HSSTC?

Here's what a picture of the rooftop lounge at the practice facility looks like at night at the HSS TC.



In off-season report #22, Nets Income states that it's not just the practice court, but also the open air rooftop lounge that's been used as a marketing element. They've used the scenic view as an asset in their sales pitches and negotiations.

Do we know if it's been used to woo free agents and senior staffers to Brooklyn. Yes, we do. And it's worked.

They should put some mini basket nets around the lounge so ppl can shoot

One advantage of the Nets finally moving their practice facility from New Jersey to the HSSTC is that the players are now actually living in Brooklyn.

Players usually spend more time at the practice facility than in the actual arena, so they tend to want to live closer to the practice facility. So in prior years, they would live outside Brooklyn and spend their time in New Jersey, only traveling to Brooklyn to play games. With the HSSTC up and running, they've now made the migration. 12 of the 15 players with guaranteed contracts are living in Brooklyn, where only 1 of them did last year.

The NYTimes has an article on it with lots of interesting tidbits.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/12/sports/basketball/nets-pro-athletes-live-in-brooklyn.html

Apparently, despite having played in many cities around the league and around the world, Scola says this is the first time in his life that he's ever lived in a big city (he used to just live in either small cities or the suburbs of bigger cities). Just one week of hunting for parking spots in NYC convinced him to sell his minivan.

McCullough made apartment hunting his special project after every practice in the summer, poring over online listings himself and visiting each place with his uncle, without the help of a broker because he didn't want to pay a fee. Spending 4 months and looking at over 40 apartments. This was the response by Joe Harris :

“He looked at how many?” Joe Harris said. “Good God. I would’ve given up.”

Booker is still suffering from sticker shock. There's a huge difference between Utah real estate prices and NYC.

Sean Kilpatrick is one of the few not in Brooklyn. He opted to commute 40 miles to work, so that he could live in White Plains, overlooking his old middle school and stopping by to eat mom's cooking at night. He has to leave at 6:30am to get to a 9:20am morning shootaround. Because of the commute time, that 40-mile commute means he's not able to travel home and back for evening games, during the allotted that the coaching staff gives players to go home for a pre-game nap. He has a standing offer from Jeremy Lin to use the guest bedroom at JLin's place for those naps. I guess Jeremy's paying it forward, except he's doing it with a guest bedroom for his teammates which should be more comfortable than Landry Field's couch

Several of the Nets moved into a cluster of high-rise buildings in downtown Brooklyn, so they'll all be near each other.

Quite a change from last year, when only 1 player lived in Brooklyn. The new HSSTC has already helped the culture change by relocating the players.