EXCLUSIVE: Nets stash Isaïa Cordinier is ready to take next step ... maybe with Nets?

Stephen R. Sylvanie-USA TODAY Sports On July 7, 2016, Jeremy Lin signed a three-year contract with the Brooklyn Nets. Lin only lasted two years in Brooklyn and played a mere 37 games with the club. By the summer of 2018, the Nets and Lin both needed to move on and he was dumped on the Atlanta Hawks in a salary-saving move. Still, the Nets wanted something back for their once-prized free agent acquisition. In return for Lin, the Hawks — in addition to a future second-round pick — gave Brooklyn the draft rights to Isaïa Cordinier, a 2016 second-round selection who had been stashed in France.

Cordinier was drafted by the Hawks in 2016 with the 44th pick. He says now that getting drafted, which…