If there are two themes that run through Sean Kilpatrick’s article for Players’ Tribune, other than family, they are don’t mess with players from New York ... and the Brooklyn Nets, particularly in the person of Sean Marks, saved his life.
The piece opens with that in-your-face optimism that marks New York players as a group and Kilpatrick as a player.
“There are a lot of myths about basketball players from New York, but there’s one I want to bust right off the jump.
“They say the only thing New Yorkers know how to do is dribble.