The Long Island Nets are opening the door again for local players who want a crack at the professional game.
The Brooklyn Nets’ G League affiliate has set its 2026 local player tryout for Sunday, September 13, at Long Island University’s Post Campus in Old Westbury, N.Y. The workouts will be held at the Pratt Recreational Center, with two separate sessions on the schedule: the first at 9 a.m.
ET and the second at 1 p.m. ET.
Check-in for the morning group starts at 8 a.m., while afternoon check-in begins at noon.
For the players who make the trip, the real prize is clear. The goal is to earn a place on Long Island’s training camp roster, and the G League allows teams to bring up to four players from local tryouts into camp. That gives this event a very real path from tryout floor to professional opportunity.
Long Island has already seen that route pay off.
Jordan Minor came out of the Nets’ 2024 local player tryout and appeared in 42 games for Long Island that season. Terry Roberts, the Amityville, New York, native who attended the team’s 2023 tryout, ended up playing 90 games for the Nets across the next three seasons.
He finished his Long Island run third in franchise history with 344 assists, earned an invitation to Brooklyn’s Summer League team in 2025, and later signed an Exhibit 10 contract with the Nets before last season. Roberts is now playing overseas after signing with the Caledonia Gladiators in Scotland.
The most decorated example may be Craig Randall II, who earned his place with the Nets after a successful local tryout in 2021 and then won the G League’s Most Improved Player award that same season.
Registration is set at $250 per player through September 1, then rises to $275 after that date. Players must pre-register, complete the required registration and waiver forms, and meet NBA G League eligibility requirements.
Each session will be capped at the first 75 applicants who pay and complete the necessary paperwork. Both tryout sessions will be closed to the public, and spectators will not be allowed.
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