Will Weaver — at the ‘intersection’ of Brooklyn and Long Island

Will Weaver, named earlier this month as head coach of the Long Island Nets, is happy to be where he is right now, in the “middle of the intersection” between Brooklyn’s NBA and G-League teams. A development specialist and an analytics advocate, the 34-year-old Weaver knows those tools, more than any other, will hold him in good stead when his team takes the court at Nassau Coliseum in November.

“Certainly within the Brooklyn environment we look at it as an incredibly important part of what we’re doing moving forward and a chance to expand our universe of players two-fold on a yearly basis and sometimes more with the number of guys you have access to that you can bring in to your roster…