In an interview with Leaders in Sport, a sports conferencing group, Sean Marks says that the Nets culture will have to “grow and adapt” to accommodate superstars Kevin Durant and Kyrie Irving but, by the same token, they and everyone else in the organization has to “buy in” to the values that has sustained the franchise’s success.
The Nets GM also said that he prefers to have a “leadership group of four, five, six players” and even staff, rather than a captain or co-captain because often “your best player may not have the voice to lead and may not actually want it.