Maybe, as Sean Marks told reporters at a hastily arranged press conference on Saturday, the decision to part ways with Kenny Atkinson was a mutual decision.
Maybe, as Marks, the Brooklyn Nets GM, said, “this matter didn’t involve the players.”
Maybe, as Marks insisted, this wasn’t a mandate from ownership.
Maybe, as Marks let slip, Atkinson did say to him in the last 24 hours, “It’s time.”
But does any of that make sense?
Does any of this makes sense?
Just 11 months earlier, the Nets believed in Kenny Atkinson.