Sean Marks: Brooklyn Nets don’t want to ‘lock ourselves into being a 6-7 seed’

General Manager Sean Marks actually said the damn thing.

Following a predictable, if slightly more competent than expected season for the Brooklyn Nets in 2024-25, Marks and Head Coach Jordi Fernández took the podium at HSS Training Facility for their joint exit interview on Monday afternoon.

A season in which Jalen Wilson and Keon Johnson were the team’s two leading minute-getters produced a 26-56 record, and the sixth-best odds heading into the NBA Draft Lottery. These 82 games, the very hiring of Fernández, and Marks’ decision to re-acquire Brooklyn’s own first-rounders in 2025 and 2026 last summer have signaled a full-scale rebuild.

But because the Nets got off to a fanbase-paralyzing 9-10…