Ask Kenneth Faried if he’s offended by being tagged a salary dump, if he’s motivated to show he’s still the same player he once was, and the Nets newcomer will let you know there’s no past tense here.
“Hey, I never stopped being the player I am. There’s no ‘were,’ ” the 28-year-old Faried said Wednesday as he was introduced at the team’s Brooklyn training facility.
“The Nuggets wanted to go in a different direction. Brooklyn decided, ‘Hey, let’s pick up a still-able, still-capable player who can go out and produce and lead a team and do the things he’s done before.