What will it take for the Nets to finally fire Sean Marks?

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The Nets have always had a nickname problem. They began their life as the New Jersey Americans but on July 15, 1968, they announced they were crossing a couple of bridges and settling in Nassau County. They also decided to change their name.

Its a good-sounding name, it has a good ring to it, Arthur Browne, who then owned the team, explained. It ties in with the Mets and the Jets and has a basketball connotation. We didnt like it last year when headline writers shortened our name to Amerks. They wont be able to shorten this one.

(Yes, remarkably, there was a time when it seemed cutting edge to brazenly bond your brand so closely to the Mets and Jets you wanted to rhyme with them. The New York Sets of World Team Tennis followed suit a few years later, though they wised up and couldnt change their name to Apples soon enough.)

But really Nets? Why not the Rims? Why not the Sneakers? Why not the Headbands?

And now, why not the Brooklyn Marks?

It makes sense, you know, and for three reasons. Sean Marks is the general manager, and while the announcement has never passed across my desk, apparently in the last few years he was appointed and anointed Boss for Life by Joseph Tsai, the man who actually owns the team. He has also been allowed to make several lasting and permanent marks on what has always been a torturous and tortured franchise, most of them overflowing with slapstick and stupidity. And lastly: most of those deals have revealed the Nets to be easy marks for smarterfront offices, a group that includes well, all of them.

What_will_it_take_for_the_Nets_to_finally_fire_Sean_Marks 4Nets GM Sean Marks fired head coach Jacque Vaughn on Monday. Noah K. Murray for the NY PostThe Brooklyn Marks! Hey, if the Cleveland Browns can next year celebrate their 80th anniversary of being named for a person, why not the Marks? Sure, Paul Brown was actually good at his job, and popular in his city, but even he actually and eventually got fired from the team that bore his name.

Its hard to fathom what Sean Marks might have to do to get fired in Brooklyn. He has more job security than Queen Elizabeth II (who was the boss in the UK for almost 72 years) and William O. Douglas (who took full advantage of his lifetime appointment to the Supreme Court to the tune of 36 years and 7 months) combined. The Brooklyn Bridge has been a part of the Brooklyn skyline since 1883; its an urban myth that Marks had to beat the horse-and-buggy traffic that day to make his introductory press conference on time.

Monday Marks fired Jacque Vaughn, and lets start with this: Vaughn is a good guy, and a fine basketball coach, but firing him in itself isnt exactly inexcusable. Nice a man as he is, had Vaughn been allowed to stay, he wouldve had to start a 97-game winning steak beginning Thursday night in Toronto just to get to .500 for his career.

But if Vaughn has to go, Marks really shouldve been his wheelman in the car taking them both away from the Nets waterfront headquarters. Vaughn joins Kenny Atkinson and Steve Nash as coaches that Marks has been allowed to hire, and now fire. It seems entirely possible that the final coach Marks will fire as Tsais consigliere hasnt been born yet.

What_will_it_take_for_the_Nets_to_finally_fire_Sean_Marks 4Nets GM Sean Marks (r.) and Jacque Vaughn (l.) Noah K. Murray for the NY PostMarks has fancied himself the Crown Prince of Culture from the day he was introduced as GM on Feb. 18, 2016. It was Mikhail Prokhorov who hired him, but it has been Tsai who has emboldened and enabled him, surely because hes been charmed by all of Marks paeans to culture. Literally Marks very first sentence on the job ended this way:

I look forward to the challenge of creating a unified culture and building a winning team.

And heres the kicker: For a while, Marks wasnt just true to his word, the idea worked. He hired Kenny Atkinson as coach, drafted Jarrett Allen, assembled a likeable cast of overachievers who took a game off the 76ers in Game 1 of the 2019 playoffs. Marks and Atkinson were in lockstep, and what they were building was so impressive to the outside that it helped lure Kevin Durant.

What_will_it_take_for_the_Nets_to_finally_fire_Sean_Marks 4Sean Marks (l.) and Nets owner Joe Tsai (r.) Corey Sipkin for the NY PostThat should have been a triumphant peak for Marks, but instead it marked the beginning of a steep downfall that wont end until hes finally relieved of his duties sometime in the 2061 season. Durant begat Kyrie Irving, who Marks not only spent three years coddling even as he was wandering farther and farther off the (apparently flat) planet, it also led to a divorce with Atkinson. Irving begat James Harden, and then Ben Simmons.

Its been one slapstick moment after another these last 4 years, and it all culminated with the Nets resting most of their key players in a Christmas Week game at Barclays Center against the Bucks. The Nets are 6-18 since. Vaughn was forced to wear that night, but if you believe that was Vaughns idea well, congrats, the Williamsburg Bridge will look nice in your backyard. Apparently culture doesnt include either courage or accountability in Marks playbook.

But, then, why should it? We should all have such patient bosses. Marks has acted like a man begging to be fired for years now. Its just that Joseph Tsai is the only one who cant hear his pleas. So why not just go all the way? Consider it done.

What_will_it_take_for_the_Nets_to_finally_fire_Sean_Marks 4Sean Marks’ Kevin Durant (7) and Kyrie Irving (11) plan turned out to be a failure. Charles Wenzelberg/NY PostWelcome to the Brooklyn Marks.

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