As the Nets try to keep up in the Eastern Conference playoff race in the fourth game of a seven-game West Coast trip on Tuesday night, their G League affiliate on Long Island is preparing for its own postseason after clinching the Atlantic Division title under first-year head coach Will Weaver.



Brooklyn has relied on its Long Island team often during the 2018-19 season. Two-way players Theo Pinson and Alan Williams have played in a combined 19 games with Brooklyn thus far while Mitchell Creek and Tahjere McCall played a combined five games for the NBA team while on 10-day contracts. Brooklyn’s first-round pick Dzanan Musa has spent the majority of the season (34 games) developing his game with Long Island, where we’ve also seen Rodions Kurucs (four games) and Treveon Graham (one game) on rehab assignments while returning from injuries.



“I think the main thing for us has been the development of our two-way players, our assignments players and also our...