It’s not just the historic (and we don’t use that term lightly) turnaround vs. Sacramento or the three 40+ games D’Angelo Russell has put up this season. It’s not even the winning record in mid-March or the prospect of the first post-season in four years.
It’s a bit more ephemeral than that. It’s the general acceptance that what the Nets have is special and sustainable. It goes along with the Woj video and Stephen A. Smith’s almost hourly praise of the organization and now, the SLAM cover, “THE NOTORIOUS D-LO: D’Angelo Russell Is Built for This!