Fans often focus on the big news out of a trade: who’s going where? How much leeway do the Nets have this year in free agency ... as they try to avoid luxury taxes? How does the new CBA affect things? Etc. But while the comings and goings, rumored and real, are grabbing all the headlines, things like development aren’t being much talked about. Rebuilds normally aren’t successful without growth from the team’s youngest players.
For the Nets, that’s everyone from Cam Thomas and Day’Ron Sharpe, both 22; to Noah Clowney and Dariq Whitehead, both 19.