Brooklyn’s Biggest Night: Why Barclays Remains the Home of NBA Draft

Brooklyn’s Biggest Night: Why Barclays Remains the Home of NBA Draft

For every college star chasing a lifelong dream of reaching the NBA, one stage stands above all others. Every June, future franchise cornerstones walk across that stage, shake the commissioner’s hand, and officially become professionals. For more than a decade, that moment has unfolded inside Barclays Center in Brooklyn. The NBA Draft did not always have a fixed address. The event bounced between New York, Portland, Vancouver, New Jersey, and ot…