“We are going younger, we got a youth movement here,” said Sean Marks Thursday in introducing yet another new Net, Allen Crabbe, aged 25, to local media.
Indeed, they have. The hallmark of the Nets off-season has been their willingness to take on huge contracts to get younger and more athletic players as well as draft picks.
All told, the Brooklyn Nets traded around $32 million in 2017-18 salary for around $55 million this year — a net total of about $118 million over the next three years — for a future.
D’Angelo Russell is 21, only legal to buy beer this past February.