A month later, Prokhorov and his team narrowed the list down to two candidates, eventually choosing Sean Marks as the heir apparent to Billy King. Coming from the San Antonio Spurs, he served as the assistant general manager and gained the opportunity to learn from R.C. Buford, who perhaps the best GM of the past decade. No one in Brooklyn has looked back ever since he took on his duties as general manager of the Nets.
From the hiring of Kenny Atkinson to drafting Caris LeVert and Isaiah Whitehead, the Nets have prioritized building a young core of players as a way to develop chemistry for the coming future.