Former San Antonio Spurs assistant General Manager, Sean Marks, will be leaving the Spurs to join the Brooklyn Nets as their new General Manager.
Following from an official Brooklyn Nets press release.
The Brooklyn Nets announced today that the team has named Sean Marks as General Manager.
“After an exhaustive vetting process, we are delighted to have Sean as our General Manager,” Nets owner Mikhail Prokhorov said. “His experience on the court, in coaching and management gives him a 360 degree view of the job at hand. His background helping to build one of the greatest teams in the NBA gives him an unparalleled frame of reference. And he impressed us all with his vision, his values, his personality and his enthusiasm for the club. The vote to select him from an incredible list of talent was unanimous. We welcome Sean into our Nets family and look forward to his strong leadership and independent thinking as we build our own success story.”
“I am very excited to be named the General Manager of the Brooklyn Nets, and to become a member of the vibrant and dynamic organization that represents Brooklyn,” Marks said. “I would like to thank Nets’ ownership for giving me this opportunity, and I look forward to the challenge of creating a unified culture and building a winning team.”
Details on Marks contract come from Adrian Wojnarowski of ‘The Vertical’ on Yahoo! Sports.
The Nets and Marks agreed to a four-year contract, league sources told The Vertical.
In discussions that extended to Wednesday night, the Nets significantly increased their contract offer to persuade Marks to accept the job, league sources said.
Marks spent the past five years with the San Antonio Spurs, including the last two seasons as the team’s assistant general manager. His tenure with the team also included one season as an assistant coach on the Spurs’ 2014 NBA Championship team, one season as the team’s director of basketball operations and general manager of the Spurs’ NBA Development League affiliate, the Austin Spurs, and one season as a basketball operations assistant. A native of Auckland, New Zealand, Marks also spent 12 years in the NBA playing for six different teams.
Marks has been held in high regard by the Spurs with the team hoping he’d stick around for a longer period of time. The Spurs had significant plans for Marks’ future, according to Adrian Wojnarowski of ‘The Vertical’ and they were planning on paying him more if he elected to stay with San Antonio.
Marks inherits a mess in Brooklyn but under Mikhail Prokhorov and his new objectives and ideas for success, maybe Marks can do what Billy King could not and bring success to Brooklyn.
