For the Brooklyn Nets to become good in the short-term, they almost certainly will need to find success in free agency.
Thaddeus Young and Brook Lopez are already pitching the idea of playing in Brooklyn to free agents.
“We have some cap space going into free agency for ’16 so I think that’s the biggest key, just luring those free agents,” Young said after practice. “Me and Brook have been trying to talk to guys that we think we would want to play with and just get them to take a look at us.”
Young wouldn’t say specifically who he’s talked to, but he seems to think the Nets can land “superstars.”
“With [Lopez and I] being guys that [came] up with some of the superstars in this league,” Young said. “And being in that good age group, which is the 27-, 28-, 26-year-old guys, [we're] trying to get some of those guys to come here.”
Kevin Durant is the most prominent free agent of the 2016 class.