How Sean Marks rebuilt Brooklyn and claimed New York
It's February 2016 and the Brooklyn Nets are hosting the New York Knicks. There is little intrigue to the crosstown "rivalry" with expectations for both New York teams low. The Knicks are 10 games under .500 and the Nets are off to an abysmal 15-40 start. Fans scuffle into the half-empty Barclays Center just in time for tipoff. Brooklyn announces its starting five of Donald Sloan, Wayne Ellington, Joe Johnson, Thaddeus Young, and Brook Lopez. Knicks fans overwhelmingly make t