You know that cliché quote that “Rome wasn’t built in a day?”
Well, for the Brooklyn Nets, it was built in three years under Sean Marks and Kenny Atkinson. The pundits will laud the Nets front office for the changes in culture and development of cast offs and and smart draft picks. But the big payoff came Sunday afternoon when Kyrie Irving and Kevin Durant officially committed to sign four-year deals with the franchise, a seismic event not just for Brooklyn fans but the NBA itself.
The Nets are in an interesting situation.