Across Brooklyn’s 39th Street from the building that house the HSS Training Center and the Nets business offices is a reminder of the devastation that COVID-19 has wreaked on New York City. As the team, players and staff, re-gather in Brooklyn this week, the pandemic’s worst effects will be visible close by.
The Daily Mail reported back in May and the Wall Street Journal again last week that the vast parking lot next to the building has been home to mobile morgues ... a white fleet of refrigerated trucks filled with the unclaimed bodies of those New Yorkers lost to the deadly virus.