The Brooklyn Nets have put their franchise in a position that basically no other team ever has. Trading years worth of picks for a chance to be great immediately blew up in their face and they have now realized the importance of patience in the NBA. According to ESPN’s Zach Lowe, the Nets front office is aware they won’t be good for awhile and just want player improvement.
“We signed up for this,” Marks said. For now, he has the backing of an ownership whose impatience buried the Nets in one of the deepest holes in the history of sports.
“We are ready to be patient,” said Dmitry Razumov, the Nets’ chairman and main U.S. representative of Mikhail Prokhorov, the team’s owner. “We went the other way, and failed miserably.” Ownership would accept a 25-win season in 2017-18. “That would be fine,” Razumov said, “if the young guys make progress.”
The caveat, for the Nets, is a good one. Losing is not the end all be all in the NBA if your young prospects show improvements in their game and the Nets finally have young guys who have the opportunity to improve.
