With the Kevin Durant and Kyrie Irving acquisitions made official, the Brooklyn Nets have cemented themselves as the team to beat in the Eastern Conference. These powerful words feel so strange to write; I can only assume they’re even weirder to read.
Just four seasons ago, Brooklyn was a basement dweller with no picks, no star players of note, and no hope whatsoever. The team’s dysfunction made the crosstown New York Knicks look like the damn New England Patriots. Then, Sean Marks took over as GM and the story of this underdog franchise changed.