The Brooklyn Nets’ 2023 Media Day offered up some déjà vu, reminiscent of Jacque Vaughn and Sean Marks’ joint press conference one week earlier. The lead story that day was that Ben Simmons was officially back, playing five-on-five, unencumbered. Simmons, naturally, was once again the main story on Monday's full-blown Media Day, and was present to provide some quotes himself. With the preseason Simmons hype/hope reaching its annual zenith, we have that story here.
But as with the Marks and Vaughn a week earlier, there was also much discussion on this iteration of the non-superstar Brooklyn Nets forming an identity, a pathway to being competitive.