This was a number of days after the Nets completed off the primary humiliation of what has change into a summer season full of extra slapstick than a Marx Brothers movie competition. This was a number of beats after the Celtics had wiped the ground with the Nets, wiped them out of the NBA playoffs in 4 straight video games.
This was Sean Marks, previously the self-appointed Minister of Tradition for the whole sport of basketball, reaching into his previous bag of tips to explain his newly calibrated imaginative and prescient of Brooklyn basketball.
“I believe we all know what we’re in search of,” Marks mentioned. “We’re in search of guys that need to are available right here and be a part of one thing larger than themselves, play selfless, play staff basketball, and be obtainable. And that goes not just for Kyrie [Irving], however for everyone right here.”
There was extra.
“We want folks right here that need to be right here, they’re selfless, and so they need to be a part of one thing larger than themselves. And there’s an goal and a aim at stake right here, and so as to do this we’re going to want availability from all people.”
That was Sean Marks, on Might 11.
This was Sean Marks 104 days later, on Tuesday:
“Steve Nash and I, along with [owners] Joe Tsai and Clara Wu Tsai, met with Kevin Durant and Wealthy Kleiman in Los Angeles yesterday. We've got agreed to maneuver ahead with our partnership. We're specializing in basketball, with one collective aim in thoughts: construct a long-lasting franchise to carry a championship to Brooklyn.”
And thus have the Nets made the ever-tricky shift from Marx Brothers to Three Stooges.
And sure, they're straightforward sufficient to establish: the proprietor, the GM, the coach. Since June 30, they've stared at the impossible-to-play hand of Durant demanding the last word Catch-22 commerce, understanding there may be actually no such factor as honest worth, and have been decided to verify they weren’t performed for fools.
For his or her troubles, Durant started to stroll his previously agency stance again earlier this month — on the situation that Nash and Marks be fired. That, like nearly each different scheme Durant cooks up off a basketball courtroom, went over about in addition to a Metallica cowl band at a baptism.
And now, everybody strikes ahead.
Perhaps will probably be Tsai’s responsibility to e mail the lyrics to Durant, Irving, the remaining Nets, and everybody else on employees for what now, absolutely, might be a weekly sing-a-long.
“Somebody’s crying lord … Kumbaya …”
I imply, certain, inform me that’s an absurdity. However have you ever seen the way in which issues have performed out in Brooklyn? Have you ever seen the way in which the boys in command of the asylum maintain insisting the inmates might be held at bay, and maintain getting rolled flat like Kevin Bacon in “Animal Home”?
This has been essentially the most laughable basketball saga we’ve ever seen — and for the love of Tremendous John Williamson, we’re speaking in regards to the NETS right here!. The Nets have been the house workplace for basketball burlesque since 1967, and someway they simply maintain getting higher. They must have their very own wing in Springfield, Mass., on the Corridor of Fame.
With one room devoted fully to this summer season.
Sure. That is exactly the way in which to construct a long-lasting franchise. Perhaps somebody within the NBA would argue the purpose with them, however the remainder of the league is buried in guffaws. Give this to the Nets: They by no means, ever disappoint.
Look, sure, there may be an upside of kinds right here: With all of the clamor and litter, it’s straightforward to overlook how a lot enjoyable Durant and Irving are to observe when they're enjoying at their peak. Ben Simmons is an unlimited unknown that might nonetheless shock. The Nets will win some video games. They may stay — so long as the band stays again collectively, anyway, and so long as the Knicks stay the Knicks — the usual bearer for professional basketball in New York.
However the concept this group goes to tiptoe previous Boston, Milwaukee, Miami and Philly — for starters — within the East, not to mention planning a parade down Flatbush Avenue subsequent June (or any June)? Effectively, it’s like shopping for a PowerBall ticket.
Positive, it's possible you'll win.
However I wouldn’t give up your day job.
Not that Nash and Marks should fear about that the primary time the Nets lose 4 in a row — or the primary time Durant’s ego spends a while within the coach’s room. He has Joe Tsai’s cell quantity, in any case. He isn’t afraid to make use of it.
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