With banners celebrating the history of the Nets and Jay-Z's concert sellout streak over his shoulder, ACC Commissioner John Swofford announced that the league's men's basketball tournament is coming to Brooklyn.
There isn't an Atlantic Coast Conference school within 200 miles, but New York is home to several large alumni bases and, perhaps more importantly, is a ''media capital,'' Swofford said at Barclays Center on Wednesday.
The league will crown its champion at the arena in 2017 and '18, after holding the tournament in Greensboro, N.C., in 2015 and in Washington in 2016.