{"id":196584,"date":"2026-04-14T09:29:16","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T09:29:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/196584\/"},"modified":"2026-04-14T09:29:16","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T09:29:16","slug":"sean-marks-leaves-nets-rebuild-timeline-murky-you-just-never-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/196584\/","title":{"rendered":"Sean Marks leaves Nets’ rebuild timeline murky: ‘You just never know’"},"content":{"rendered":"

After two arduous years of tanking, Nets fans want to know whether their team is going to flip the switch and accelerate their rebuild \u2014 and if so, when.<\/p>\n

GM Sean Marks\u2019 answer was as evasive as expected.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt depends a little on what becomes available. You just never know,\u201d said Marks. \u201cWe\u2019ve put this Nets team and franchise in a place to be able to be opportunistic. Does that fit our timeline? Does this particular trade work for us right now?<\/p>\n

\u201cYou can always add talent, but does that talent fit our approach and for the development of these young guys, fit in with the group we have? So, those are discussions I look forward to having with Jordi [Fern\u00e1ndez] and the rest of the coaching staff, front office, mostly Joe [Tsai] \u2014 when we want to add and how we want to add.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"BrooklynBrooklyn Nets GM Sean Marks speaks with the media during post season interviews at HSS Training Center. Corey Sipkin for the NY POST<\/p>\n

That was in line with The Post\u2019s reporting that Brooklyn\u2019s timeline would partly hinge on whether a star shook loose after the playoffs.<\/p>\n

Michael Porter Jr. had a career year, but tailed off to shoot just 40.9 percent \u2014 and 25.6 from deep \u2014 in his final 14 games.<\/p>\n

\u201cOnce All-Star break happened and I realized I wasn\u2019t an All-Star, I had a little slippage in my focus, a little slippage in my preparation,\u201d said Porter. \u201cAnd that can\u2019t happen regardless of what\u2019s going on with the team and the team record.\u201d<\/p>\n

Fern\u00e1ndez spoke on the emotional strain of a losing season.<\/p>\n

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\u201cYou don\u2019t know how you\u2019re going to deal with your emotions until you have to go through it,\u201d said Fern\u00e1ndez. \u201cI remember getting the job and some people were like \u2018Oh, it\u2019s going to be hard. It\u2019s not going to be easy\u2019. I always have a positive mindset; I\u2019m like \u2018Oh, no, we\u2019ll be OK\u2019. [But] it\u2019s really hard because you want to go out there and win.\u201d<\/p>\n

Noah Clowney averaged career highs of 12.3 points and 4.1 rebounds, and showed a knack for getting to the line. But he didn\u2019t make the strides he\u2019d hoped for defensively.<\/p>\n

\"NoahNoah Clowney speaks with the media during post season interviews at HSS Training Center, Monday, April 13, 2026, in Brooklyn, NY. Corey Sipkin for the NY POST<\/p>\n

\u201cI progressed this year, maybe not as much as I wanted to, which I thought I would have,\u201d said Clowney. \u201cBut I got better at some different things, and I got more experience. So I\u2019m gonna take that for what it is.<\/p>\n

\u201cI got a lot better at getting to the rim. [My handle] can get a lot better, and that would prevent my turnovers\u2026Defensively, it\u2019s just always been consistency. I can do it at times, and other times I just don\u2019t..\u201d<\/p>\n

As impressive as Josh Minott was after arriving at the trade deadline, he was playing hurt from his earlier season ankle sprain.<\/p>\n

\u201cI look forward to seeing him healthy,\u201d said Marks. \u201cHe was playing on one leg with us for most of the time here, so it is nice to get that ankle taken care of and then again have another big summer for a young man like that..\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After two arduous years of tanking, Nets fans want to know whether their team is going to flip…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":196585,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,355,99,21,9,24,63,8439,319],"class_list":["post-196584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-nets","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-nba","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-sean-marks","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196584","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196584"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196584\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/196585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}