LAS VEGAS — In many ways, last year was a humbling rookie season for Dzanan Musa. The Nets hope it was a helpful one.
Brooklyn’s first-round draft pick was forced to toil in the G League and watch while second-round selection Rodions Kurucs not only played but started.
The lesson was clear for the 20-year-old Musa: He had to play for the moniker on his chest, not the one on his back. And as the 6-foot-9 wing has started to do just that in Summer League, he could force himself into the Nets rotation — or at least onto the game-day roster.