New York’s governor, Andrew Cuomo, announced on Saturday that Brooklyn Nets governor Joe Tsai and his wife, Clara Wu Tsai, were helping facilitate the donation of 1,000 ventilators to New York from the Chinese government.
And the Nets organization continues to do more for New York in the battle against the novel coronavirus.
Hours after he announced the donation of ventilators, Cuomo took to Twitter to inform everyone the Nets were coming up big for all of New York once again — and they teamed up with their crosstown NBA rival in the process.
Cuomo’s announcement stated:
The @NBA is contributing 1 million desperately needed surgical masks for New York’s essential workers in collaboration with @nyknicks, @BrooklynNets and China’s Consul General Huang Ping.
We are beyond grateful for this gift of critically needed PPE (personal protective equipment).
Tsai has also made sure the Nets and Barclays Center hourly and part-time employees are taken care of through the end of May if all games and events wind up being canceled.