In an examination of how Sean Marks built the team that will take the court tonight as the betting favorite to win it all, Brian Lewis reaches back to “Fields of Dreams” for a sports analogy that is indeed appropriate.
One can almost imagine a disembodied voice echoing from the rafters in Barclays Center, saying, “If you build it, they will come.”
That is the theme of the Lewis piece, that Marks understood just what he needed to build to attract the superstars who now call Brooklyn home: Kevin Durant and Kyrie Irving who chose to come to Brooklyn as free agents in 2019 and James Harden who demanded a trade to the Nets earlier this year.