The Warriors are in the NBA Finals, the Nets are not. And in a pre-Finals report on The Athletic, Tim Kawakami writes about how the Nets willingness to do a sign-and-trade at the time of The Clean Sweep in 2019 was the first step in getting Golden State back in contention.
While Kawakami’s story lays out the value of the deal to the Warriors, it was also important to the Nets.
Kawakami spoke with Warriors GM Bob Myers and owner Joe Lacob about how reconstructing (not rebuilding) the Warriors began that night, how they had a sense of what they were going to do following their devastating loss to the Raptors in the 2019 Finals.