The Long Island Nets will take the court in a month, finally ending an 11-month hiatus caused by COVID-19. The G League announced Friday that the 2021 season would begin February 8 in a “bubble” at Disney World, scene of last summer’s NBA “bubble.”
Long Island will be one of 18 teams in the “bubble,” along with 17 of the 27 NBA affiliates who opted into the the league plan, and Team Ignite, the G League select team comprised of top NBA prospects. Among the the teams that opted out of the plan (which requires an expenditure of about a half million dollars) are affiliates of the Lakers, Celtics and Heat.