Nets spend Veterans Day at Fort Hamilton
Players serve meals to military personnel
Military men and women at the US Army Garrison at Fort Hamilton had an unusual crew of waiters serving them lunch on Monday. And boy were these waiters tall!
Members of the Brooklyn Nets, the borough’s own NBA team, paid a lengthy visit on Veterans Day to Fort Hamilton in Bay Ridge, the borough’s only active military post, where the team held a practice and then, wearing chef’s hats and aprons, stood behind the serving station in the fort’s community club and served a hot lunch of turkey, stuffing, potatoes, carrots and string beans to the military men and women.
The community club, a fortress-like building on the base, was turned into a cafeteria for the afternoon, as seven-foot-tall NBA players, ladles in hand, happily dished out food from the serving trays.