Name: How did the Nets land Durant and Kyrie? By doing things the right way - Amin Elhassan | The Jump
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we have talked a lot over these past couple days about sort of the moves that they have made since then.

The culture that they kind of created in the wake of all that.

Past simple

The smartest thing they did along this path to rebuilding That really got them toe winning free agents.

So they didn't They could not tank because they had no incentive.

Because not only did they not control their picks every other year, but in those off years their picks would swap.

So they really were like, Look, we're going to get guys who play hard and we're gonna try to win every single day.

We're gonna try toe, try to play that way.

We're gonna beat the bushes and look, They drafted some guys and they signed some guys that did not work out.

There were guys that were efs and they were gone.

But over the course of time they found Spencer Dinwiddie.

They put Joe Harris off the scrapheap because they were able to do experiment next, you know, to come out the other side, and they've got a team with a terrific culture.

And when you're trying to sell, there's a whole bunch of different teams in big markets.

Culture turns to matter and ended up mattering in this week.

I mean, I mean, you're someone points we shouldn't even have a draft.

This is a team that in some ways de facto operated without a draft for a while and did the thing that you've said, Hey, teams could be forced Now, I don't know if this only works if you also happen to be in New York City, right?

Because, as Kyrie said, Hey, I just wanted to go home.

I don't It would be naive to say that Brooklyn being in New York had nothing to do with it.

But yesterday Rachel was a triumph for everything that we talked about on this show culture doing things the right way, not taking short cuts, not bartering on past achievements or my zip code or any of those things.

You gotta show players you want to be here.

The best way to do that is to build something first of all, winning, which they did last year, but also something where everyone is in line, right.

It's not kind of everybody doing their own thing.

Hey, went down to New Orleans to do it all again, I guess.

And kudos, obviously the Kenny Atkinson they did.

What Brian is saying when you don't have picks every other year and the years that you do have your pick If it's high, Boston says, No, no, no, I'll have that.

You have zero incentive to tank And so you want to get rid of tanking?

Make its of that Draft picks are not a thing.

That's that's why I say give it to the draft, because that's the best way to show team for teams to show players the reason you want to be here because we know what we're doing right, right when they just want to kind of paint you on another thing that Zach Lowe said in his article, he was pointing out that, Hey, this is a lot like if you look at the cut Katie Chi repairing It's a lot like the Russ K d pairing your seven to wash K d.

Do you think that this last year up close, do you think that that's true?

I think Katie coming off an Achilles that's gonna be remains to be seen, what he's gonna look like in Kyrie with the injuries he's already dealt with.

I don't know if either one is gonna have close to the athleticism that we saw in that period in Oklahoma City, but this whole thing to me is less about the Nets and more about the Knicks.

Matt Barnes sat right here yesterday and said Katie and Kyrie and Andre were all supposed to go to the Knicks.

How bad are things screwed up in New York, where all those guys who wanted to be there all long and I can promise you the Warriors organization.

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