ESSAY: From Draft Night to Free Agency, Brooklyn Nets doing it their way

The Brooklyn Nets and its fans went into the NBA Draft with angst and anticipation.

Consensus is in — it wasn’t a success and it wasn’t a failure! We won’t know for a bit despite feedback. But the Brooklyn Nets took a chance with five players few probably expected, particularly Egor Demin at No. 8. We aren’t going to act like we know all that goes on behind the scenes, and these are the people who get paid to do it.

In Brooklyn, for better or worse, Sean Marks and co. are going to do it their way. That goes for the Draft and it goes for their most recent offseason moves, the latest surrounding Cam Johnson and Michael Porter Jr. The upside in the draft day “gambles” are high, but will it work?…