Want D’Angelo Russell in Phoenix? Root for the Nets to form a superteam

Photo by Al Bello/Getty Images Around eight months ago, the first seeds were planted of a possible ‘SuperFriends’ backcourt when Devin Booker told Newsday he would love to play with best friend D’Angelo Russell sometime during his career. When that message was relayed back to Russell, he mentioned how nobody thought Kevin Durant and Stephen Curry would team up either.

Of course that made both fan bases in Phoenix and Brooklyn perk up. Now, as we inch closer and closer towards free agency, the possibility actually seems more realistic than originally thought.

“We’ve seen him since Ohio State and all the things that he can do. I mean, he has the ‘clutch gene,’ he has the ‘it factor.’ I would…