People have a tendency to forget that on the night of June 30, the night of the “Clean Sweep,” the Nets reached agreements with FOUR free agents: Kyrie Irving, Kevin Durant, DeAndre Jordan ... and Garrett Temple. While the first three got a lot of attention, Temple was not an add-on. Irving wanted him on the Nets.
As James Herbert of CBS Sports reports in his profile of Temple...
Irving wanted Temple to know that he respects his game, and that when the star point guard committed to the Nets, he gave management a list of targets he’d like them to pursue.