Back when Forrest Weber first interviewed with the Nets on Dec. 3, 2014 — yes, he can recall the day — he told them he wasn’t going to give up on his acting dreams.
A decade later, when Weber landed a role on eventual Netflix hit “Black Rabbit” and his agent said he could quit that Nets gig, he replied, “But I like my day job, too.”
Now, Weber — a longtime member of the Nets’ basketball operations and equipment staff — is enjoying one surreal scene after another pinch-me moment. It’s a crazy confluence of his dual professional lives — athletic and artistic — that seems like madness, even to the man living it.
Filming for the show has happened at Barclays Center, with neither employer knowing about Weber’s other hustle. And now that the show is a streaming hit, Weber has been highlighted on the arena jumbotron’s “Who’s In The House” segment during the Nets’ tilt against the Pistons.
[Notigroup Newsroom in collaboration with other media outlets, with information from the following sources]
