The Brooklyn Nets dropped their second game in Vegas on Sunday afternoon, but as usual, the story was hardly about what happened on the floor. Between General Manager Sean Marks joining ESPN’s booth, and talking to supportive (for now) teammates Cam Johnson and Dorian Finney-Smith on the sidelines, many words were spilled about the state of the franchise.
All three spoke, as you’d expect, with the calm and restraint of a (winning) politician. Johnson, when asked what Brooklyn’s front office told him about the team in the wake of the Mikal Bridges trade, simply said: “Still trying to figure it out, still trying to figure it out.