Brooklyn Nets, LLC
Lobbying client
Brooklyn Nets, LLC is the entity behind the NBA team that plays at Barclays Center in Brooklyn, wholly owned since September 2019 by Joe Tsai, who also owns the arena. The team and arena trademarked the phrases Brooklyn Gaming and Bet on Brooklyn as part of a push, underway since at least 2021, to legalize in-arena sports betting. Since 2024 the Nets have filed 14 city lobbying disclosures, all through the Parkside Group, lobbying four Brooklyn council members, Alexa Aviles, Chi Osse, Crystal Hudson and Lincoln Restler, and paying $221,500 on local legislation to legalize sports betting.
- Council members lobbied
- 4
- Filings (since 2024)
- 15
- Lobbying compensation (since 2024)
- $237,500
- Industry (per city contracts)
- Goods
- City contracts
- none active as of 2026-08-22 · $86,500 awarded since 2019
- Paid to date
- $60,250
Lobbied these council members
- Lincoln Restler Council Member, District 33 (Brooklyn)
- Crystal Hudson Council Member, District 35 (Brooklyn)
- Chi A. Ossé Council Member, District 36 (Brooklyn)
- Alexa Avilés Council Member, District 38 (Brooklyn)
Represented by lobbyist firms
- The Parkside Group, LLC Lobbyist firm
Holds contracts at
- Department of Education City agency
- Department of Youth and Community Development City agency
What they lobbied on
subjects from their filings
- Local Legislation (including introduction) - Sports Betting
City contracts
Registered city contracts, largest first by current contract value (not amount spent): running now, then registered to start later, then ended. Totals count every registered contract. Each line shows its Checkbook contract ID. The tag on each row is how it was awarded (“no-bid” = non-competitive).
- SOLE VENDOR-COMMODITIES Department of Education · CT104020263043482 · ended 2026 $25,000
- NEGOTIATED SERVICES-SERVICES Department of Education · CT104020253061319 · ended 2025 $25,000
- SOLE VENDOR-COMMODITIES Department of Education · CT104020223062778 · ended 2022 $25,000
- ERICA VELEZ [email protected] 646-343-6241 Department of Youth and Community Development · CT126020201408962 · ended 2020 $11,500
Where their influence converges
Outside interests connected to this official through more than one independent channel — drawn straight from the records the rest of the site already shows. “Lobbied them” = a lobbying filing that named the member. “Outside spending” = an independent-expenditure committee the interest funds spent in
- Chi A. Ossé It lobbied them; it holds contracts at 1 agency in their committees' jurisdiction