As Chris Mannix recounts for Sports Illustrated, there was a moment of truth for the Nets not long after Kevin Durant went down —and out— with a ruptured achilles tendon. Sean Marks gathered the team’s medical/performance staff for a meeting.
The Nets GM asked for a show of hands: Who was in favor of committing a max contract? Every hand shot up, Mannix writes.
“That was a pretty moving moment,” says Marks. “When you know there’s a group of young men and women that are here saying, ‘Hell, we can’t wait for that challenge.