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The 2020-21 NBA season should be one of the best ever for Nets fans — certainly the best since the franchise made back-to-back NBA Finals runs with Jason Kidd and company — with Kevin Durant and Kyrie Irving both ready to lead Brooklyn as one of the top teams in the East.
Of course, there’s still the matter of when Nets fans will be able to watch these players in person at Barclays Center as the COVID-19 pandemic continues.
While the players and staff are getting ready for their 2020-21 run, other members of the Nets organization have been working to ensure everyone will be safe at Barclays Center once they’re allowed to return.
“We have lots of plans. Those plans have served as a template, but we’ll adapt. I know we’ll be ready whenever the season starts,” Nets CEO John Abbamondi told Brian Lewis of the New York Post. “And we’ll do everything in our power to keep not only our players, but our fans healthy as we come back in some sense of normalcy as we wage this fight against the virus.”
But Abbamondi and his staff’s work doesn’t stop at safety measures.
Although he didn’t get into specifics, Abbamondi told Lewis the organization is doing more than just improve the roster to better the Barclays Center experience for fans.
“We’re taking advantage of this time. We’ve tried to be strategic … use this time to prepare ourselves for when we do bring fans back. We’re investing a lot right now to make the Barclays Center experience even better than it was.”