It’s hard to imagine that nine years ago next month, the Nets had three assistant coaches and three scouts, a bare bones basketball operations staff operating out of an antiquated training facility in East Rutherford, N.J. That was the situation Mikhail Prokhorov faced when he signed the agreement that led to his purchase of the then New Jersey Nets.
Now housed at HSS Training Center, what many call the best training facility in the NBA, the Nets staff has quietly grown both in numbers and sophistication, a NetsDaily review of social media shows. (The Nets stopped publishing a directory of basketball operations staff not long after Sean Marks took over in the spring of 2016.