It’s very likely that February 18, 2016 and April 17, 2016 will come to be known as two of the most important dates in Nets history. Those are the dates the Nets hired Sean Marks and Kenny Atkinson, starting a rebuild that some have saw as the among the most daunting in NBA history.
How have they done? Put it this way. It is time for Mikhail Prokhorov (and Joe Tsai) to step up to the plate and create another memorable day: the day the Nets give Marks and Atkinson contract extensions before they become free agents in 2020.