The Brooklyn Nets put themselves back on the NBA map last season, finishing sixth in the Eastern Conference with a 42-40 record before falling in a hard-fought five-game series to the Philadelphia 76ers.
Now, for really the first time in the franchise’s history, the Nets are in contention for some marquee free agents this summer.
Kyrie Irving appears the most likely to make the move to Brooklyn and speculation was only fueled further by reports that Irving had severed ties with his longtime agent to join Roc Nation.
His new agency is owned and run by Brooklyn’s own Jay-Z, former minority owner of the Nets, and its president, Michael Yormark, is the twin brother of Nets’ CEO Brett Yormark.