Shortly after the Nets announced the signing of Michael Beasley —and shortly before they announced the signing of Jamal Crawford, Sean Marks spoke about what those signings mean: the Nets aren’t rolling over in Orlando.
“We’re obviously here to compete,” he told reporters on a Zoom call from the “bubble.” “We’re obviously here to … as it stands now we’re in the playoffs, and the objective is to compete as well as we can while we’re down here. And then the players we bring in like I mentioned before, how they continue to help develop the young guys we have, the Jarrett Allens, the Caris LeVerts, Rodi Kurucses, Dzanan Musas, and the list goes on.