Two days before the recent N.B.A. draft, the Nets hosted a tour of their new training ground — the Hospital for Special Surgery Training Center in the Sunset Park neighborhood of Brooklyn.
With the 70,000-square-foot training center scheduled to open in February, a lot was left to the imagination as Tony Brasile, the Nets’ director of operations, described how the space would be used: two full basketball courts, weight rooms, a training pool, two hydro pools, a multimedia theater and 3,000 square feet of lounge space for the players.
While envisioning how the place would look when completed required imagination, the layout offered breathtaking views: Brooklyn to the north and east, New Jersey to the west and the most stunning vista of all — New York Harbor and the Lower Manhattan skyline.