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As Brooklyn Nets season starts, it was finally time to remove the Liberty Portraits from the Barclays Center's Ticketmaster Plaza

Photos Oct. 21
It wasn't officially announced, but it was inevitable: yesterday, and somewhat belatedly, the operators of the Barclays Center removed the Liberty Portraits installation honoring the members of the 2024 WNBA champions New York Liberty team.

That truncated access to the arena's Ticketmaster Plaza, as shown in the photos below. Surely some promotion for the Brooklyn Nets, with their home opener Oct. 24, is in the offing.

As I wrote in July, the installation of the nine-foot display cases, with photos and interviews, was billed as art but also qualified as promotion. (After all, they weren't exactly putting up portraits of random Brooklynites.)

Presumably, the goal was to keep the portraits up through the WNBA Finals, were the Liberty to repeat. Instead, they lost in the first round of the playoffs, bowing out Sept. 19.

Where will the Liberty Portraits go? There's been no announcement, but there may be space at the Barclays Center, or in storage.

In the long-term, it wouldn't be surprising to see them installed at the Liberty's new practice facility, scheduled to open in Greenpoint in 2027.



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