When Sean Marks leads his Nets into the AT&T Center Saturday night, he will be introducing an organization —team and basketball operations staff— that looks nothing like it did the last time the Nets were in San Antonio a year ago October.
There will be 10 new players and 30 new staffers, both extraordinary numbers in terms of turnover. Moreover, about a quarter of those new Nets staffers used to call the AT&T Center home, either coming immediately from San Antonio to Brooklyn or after a slight detour. There are assistant coaches, scouts, public relations and analytics staffers all with a Spurs heritage, fruit of the “Spurs tree.