The court looked straight out of the old Meadowlands, with its blue tie dye perimeter and red Nets logo at center court, as if someone had taken it off the floor in East Rutherford 30 years ago, packed it up and brought it 14 miles to Barclays Center to use it for the first time in decades.
The speakers at Barclays Center were tuned to ’90s hits, with Deee-Lite’s “Groove Is In the Heart” playing at halftime. And the team, for its talent and promise, warranted comparison to the one that first rocked the famous red and blue color scheme.
On Thursday against the Sixers, the Brooklyn Nets looked like they used a DeLorean to get to the game as they donned their 1991 throwback jerseys from the Dražen Petrović era for the first time this season. But the Nets’ biggest bridge to their New Jersey roots wasn’t present. In fact, Kyrie Irving, a New Jersey native and Nets fan growing up, wasn’t able to christen the jerseys he…
