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The Nets are rolling out Nets Fest, which \u201cwill serve as the organization\u2019s open-to-the-public community event this year instead of Practice in the Park.\u201d Getty Images <\/p>\nThe Nets are rolling out Nets Fest, which \u201cwill serve as the organization\u2019s open-to-the-public community event this year instead of Practice in the Park.\u201d Getty Images <\/p>\n
The Nets are rolling out Nets Fest, which \u201cwill serve as the organization\u2019s open-to-the-public community event this year instead of Practice in the Park<\/a>.\u201d The four-hour fan festival at Major Owens Community Center in Crown Heights is not a practice and will not be centered on drills, but the free event will \u201cemphasize access to current players and alumni through meet-and-greets, autograph and photo opportunities, interviews, panels and fan Q&As.\u201d Team representatives said that the organization \u201cwanted to try a different format this season and create more opportunities for direct interaction between fans and players.\u201d The Nets will \u201cevaluate how Nets Fest works before deciding how to approach the event next year.\u201d Last year\u2019s Practice in the Park at Potomac Playground in Bedford-Stuyvesant drew the highest attendance for an open practice in franchise history (N.Y. DAILY NEWS, 10\/3<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Nets are rolling out Nets Fest, which \u201cwill serve as the organization\u2019s open-to-the-public community event this year…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":364253,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[4567,98,100,99,21,4475,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-364252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-basketball","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-nba","tag-nets","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=364252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364252\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/364253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=364252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=364252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=364252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}