{"id":276128,"date":"2026-06-24T03:20:47","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T03:20:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/276128\/"},"modified":"2026-06-24T03:20:47","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T03:20:47","slug":"the-winners-losers-revelations-of-nets-julius-randle-trade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/276128\/","title":{"rendered":"The winners, losers, revelations of Nets&#8217; Julius Randle trade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At this time of year, ignore what teams say and pay attention to their actions.<\/p>\n<p>The Nets\u2019 actions show they are moving on from two years of shameless tanking, pivoting to a measured attempt to compete. The <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/06\/22\/sports\/nets-trade-for-julius-randle-in-pre-nba-draft-stunner\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Julius Randle trade they pulled off Monday night<\/a> \u2014 on the eve of Tuesday\u2019s draft \u2014 was a clear sign of that.<\/p>\n<p>In 10 of his 11 years running the team, Brooklyn GM Sean Marks has made a move at or on the eve of the draft. This year was no different, though the Randle move was important not just in and of itself but for what it signified.<\/p>\n<p>What does it say about the Nets\u2019 goals? <\/p>\n<p>The Nets are trying to win \u2014 within reason.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"At this time of year, ignore what teams say and pay attention to their actions. The Nets\u2019 actions&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":276129,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,355,99,17661,4600,21,9,24,63,8439,319,428],"class_list":["post-276128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-nets","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-julius-randle","tag-michael-porter-jr","tag-nba","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-sean-marks","tag-sports","tag-sports-plus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276128","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=276128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276128\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/276129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}