Nets GM Sean Marks on the type of players Brooklyn will target this offseason
With Kevin Durant and Ben Simmons under contract, and Kyrie Irving expected to opt into a player option year, the Brooklyn Nets have the nucleus of a championship contender – yet filling out the rest of the roster will be the difficult part.
Brooklyn has just six players under contract for 2022-23 – Durant, Simmons, Joe Harris, Seth Curry, Cam Thomas and Day’Ron Sharpe – while Irving and Patty Mills can opt in for another year. As such, the Nets will have a very different look when the new season begins.
In his end-of-season press conference, GM Sean Marks admitted that the Nets can’t simply “run it back” with the same roster, and likely would face similar struggles even if they did. Instead, Marks is aiming to bring more versatile players to complement his trio of stars.
Via CBS Sports:
“You’d love people who are versatile,” Marks said. “You’d love people who can play multiple positions and so forth. I think we look at some of the teams that are playing now, I mean, they’ve got 6-10 point guards out there. They’ve got, you know, Golden State has a — I don’t want to knock Draymond [Green], but what is he, a 6-7 center?”
The Nets seem to want to restore the culture that was present before they became a “superteam,” when a squad featuring the likes of Spencer Dinwiddie and Jarrett Allen improved from a 28-win year to a playoff berth the following season.
“We have prided ourselves in the past with finding players with a chip on their shoulder, with resilience, with something to prove,” he said. “We’re going to have to go back to that. We’re going to have to go back to looking a little bit more at development, looking more at finding the right characteristics of a player that fits here.”
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