Dating back to 2010, when Mikhail Prokhorov first became the team's majority owner, the Brooklyn Nets have dedicated most of their time and resources to dodging patience and process.
Trading for Deron Williams, acquiring Joe Johnson, mortgaging the future for Kevin Garnett and Paul Pierce, dealing for Thaddeus Young—that was more the Nets' speed.
Those moves came to define them. They chased immediate fixes without ever procuring permanent answers, slowly chipping away at their foundation until there was no way out—no slapstick solution to mask longstanding need for direction.
That direction came last February, with the Nets sitting at 14-40, miles outside the Eastern Conference's playoff picture, when the team named Sean Marks as its general manager. He made it clear he wasn't arriving to succeed where his predecessor, Billy King, had failed; he joined the Nets to build something different and create something that lasts.
Marks has since committed Brooklyn to a more traditional rebuild. He hired rookie head coach Kenny Atkinson. He traded Young to the Indiana Pacers for a first-round pick (Caris LeV ...
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