Full ‘Cover’-age: Brooklyn Nets’ Deron Williams gets top billing in Sports Illustrated NBA Preview
Deron Williams’ face has been plastered all over Brooklyn the past couple of years as the Nets promoted their much-anticipated move to our fair borough.
But the Nets’ $100 million All-Star point guard got some national exposure this week as the cover boy for Sports Illustrated’s NBA Preview, the latest in what has been a steady stream of prime time p.r. opportunities for Brooklyn’s first major pro sports franchise since the Dodgers left for Los Angeles following the 1957 season.
“It’s nice,” Williams said of the flashy, urban-themed cover, which shows Williams dribbling in front of a graffiti-covered wall featuring images of local icons such as Nets minority owner Jay-Z, former Nets legend Julius “Dr. J” Erving and, of course, the late, great Jackie Robinson, who broke baseball’s color line here in 1947.