Three years ago, the Brooklyn Nets were as dead as any NBA team has ever been. They had just wrapped a 21-win 2015-16 season. They had no young players of consequence. They had few draft assets; the Boston Celtics owned most of them through 2019 thanks to a trade that was and is considered one of the great heists in basketball history.
If Rondae Hollis-Jefferson signs with another team this summer, there will be zero players remaining from that 2015-16 outfit.
Just after the All-Star break that season, the Nets hired Sean Marks to be their new general manager.