Sean Marks has a swanky office, neatly tucked into a corner of the eighth floor of the Nets practice facility, a soaring waterfront warehouse in Brooklyn’s Sunset Park neighborhood. Marks, the Nets’ affable, 43-year-old GM, a Kiwi journeyman who squeezed 11 NBA seasons and one title out of his playing career before retiring to front office gigs, just doesn’t like it much. Too isolated. Doesn’t encourage collaboration. Most days, he’s down the hall in the war room, a sparsely decorated, glass-enclosed space in the middle of the facility. There, analytics staffers banter with scouts. Coaches pop in. It’s an open gym, for suits.
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