Kenny Atkinson knows all about the Nets draft situation —no control over their own first rounder until 2019, their own second rounder until 2021. He also knows the solution.
“Every guy we’ve signed for whatever reason, we’ve got to turn into a really good first-round pick. That’s the way we look at it,” Atkinson said, then referred to the 2013 trade with the Celtics. “That [trade] is part of the past and it never really enters my mind.”
But as Fred Kerber notes, the same cannot be said for the team’s fans. “That’s why Billy King VooDoo Doll (makes a great holiday gift) gets repeatedly stuck by fans’ pins.