In the past, the general rule in the NBA is that there are three ways to improve your team: the draft, trades and free agency. For an increasing number of teams, and specifically the Nets, there’s now a fourth: development.
With their limited resources, the Nets decided early on that they’d need a heavy dose of development to reach their long-term goals. It wasn’t a choice. It was a demand.
What do the players think of the team’s emphasis on development? We culled a number of recent interviews with Nets players and grabbed what they had to say about the team’s development culture.