The Brooklyn Nets are coming into a possibly franchise-changing summer in 2019. This isn’t the first time the Nets are poised to go into an offseason with an abundance of salary cap room and a chance to get well in a hurry.
With a mysterious, rich benefactor in Mikhail Prokhorov, a new head coach with playoff pedigree in Avery Johnson, a star spokesperson in Jay-Z and what seemed like all the money in the basketball world for new general manager Billy King, the New Jersey Nets in 2010 were set to not only make waves, they were set to restart the NBA landscape.