Brooklyn Nets owner Joe Tsai gave his stamp of approval on the 2021 blockbuster trade that brought James Harden to Brooklyn. With Harden now in Los Angeles and Brooklyn bereft of its upcoming draft picks, Tsai is now looking to place the Nets on a new path forward as a franchise.
"If you just want to be win-now you could ruin your future by trading away all of your assets," Tsai said last week at J.P. Morgan's Global China Summit in Shanghai. "I think what I want to do with the Brooklyn Nets is take a longer-term approach and build a sustainable, winning culture.