Kenny Atkinson on D’Angelo Russell, Caris LeVert and the future

Noah K. Murray-USA TODAY Sports Kenny Atkinson is of two minds as he looks at the Nets roster. He loves the players he went to war with this season, but knows that the time has come to move forward, make the big move ... and that means a lot of his favorites will be gone.

“We are ahead of schedule,” Atkinson said in a “Full 48” podcast with Bleacher Report’s Howard Beck. “Now we’re faced with another situation with having ten players that are becoming free agents with obviously a free agent market that’s intriguing.

“Now we have a whole new canvas to work with. And we have a good core – a really good core – returning…That’s the sensation I had after the Sixers series; we improved but have a…