We don’t definitively know what Jahlil Okafor’s future is with the Brooklyn Nets ... and it’s going to take some time, perhaps until free agency. But for Kenny Atkinson, on Okafor as on other situations, it’s never-say-never.
Atkinson, of course, has been vocal about the Nets adapting to the “new NBA,” which favors the pace-and-space style the team and most of the league fancies. That did not bode well for Okafor, whose specialty is scoring on the low block, with his back to the basket, you know, that 1990’s game.