Two years after Jared Dudley rejected general manager Sean Marks’ midnight recruiting pitch — and six years after he triggered Brooklyn fans on Twitter — he’s finally coming to the Nets. Now the question is how much game is the aging forward bringing with him?
Dudley, acquired as a salary dump, averaged a career-low 3.2 points in 14.3 minutes last season. He rejected buyout talks and got dealt from Phoenix after vexing Brooklyn fans in 2012 by questioning why Dwight Howard would opt to come to the Nets.
“[It] was about Dwight Howard and why he chose Brooklyn over the Lakers, and that was more of a question.