Then, Bobby Marks and their assistant GM (Mike Zarem) were talking back and we were really focused on Paul Pierce.
”Danny and I started talking back and forth. Here’s how King described the early process. As the rest of the league sorted out scouting reports for the worst draft in memory, King and Danny Ainge kept talking to each other. That’s when King and Dmitry Razumov got greedy and made a play for Kevin Garnett. No one outside the teams knew the deal was on the table. It was franchise-changing but not in the way the 2001 Draft was.īy the time Draft Day 2013 dawned, the Nets and Celtics had an agreement in principle to send Paul Pierce to the Nets for Kris Humphries and the Nets 2016 pick. But in terms of consequences, it was as bad-or worse- as the 2001 Draft Night was good. But it turned out to be the most momentous Draft Day in franchise history, at least since 2001 anyway when Rod Thorn got Jerry Colangelo to shake hands on the Kidd deal in the afternoon, then drafted Richard Jefferson and Jason Collins that night. It looked like a plain vanilla Draft Day, with no rumors of anything impending. Okay, it wasn’t as bad as Pearl Harbor but for Nets fans it was certainly a surprise and ultimately an attack.
