Friday was a big night at Barclays Center.
First, Gregg Popovich and the depleted San Antonio Spurs visited the Brooklyn Nets. Last time the two teams met, the Spurs won 118-105 in San Antonio. It was also Brooklyn’s first chance to bounce back from their embarrassing 118-79 against the Memphis Grizzlies on Wednesday.
Second, Brooklyn’s matchup with the Spurs marked one of the Nets’ major giveaway nights. In fact, not just a major one, it’s perhaps the biggest giveaway of the 2019-20 season: the first 10,000 fans in attendance got a Julius Erving as Marvel’s Black Panther bobblehead.
So it was only fitting that Dr. J himself was in the building on Friday.
This was actually Erving’s first trip to Barclays Center, so Nets fans made sure the legend felt right at home.
Nets legend Dr. J got a standing-O in his first time at Barclays Center 🙌 pic.twitter.com/qLbcz6hBYr
— ESPN (@espn) March 7, 2020
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