Nets in unchartered waters as young group enters camp

The Nets have the biggest crop of first-round rookies in NBA history, and they’re all coming to training camp this week. 

The team colors are black and white, but the roster is going to be green. 

Never before in the league’s 79-year history had a team ever taken five players in the first round, and that quintet will all be in Brooklyn this week. It’s a long road for that crop of kids to grow into the Nets’ core, but the first steps down that road begin with Thursday’s practice at HSS Training Center. 

“This is great. It was a unique opportunity for us, to be quite frank,” GM Sean Marks had said earlier this offseason. “We’ve never had five picks in one draft. To be able to draft all of them in a draft class we just saw, that was unique. That was something we want to take advantage of, especially in our build, where we see these young men fitting into our group and into our roster. So, it was about us capitalizing on the hand we were dealt.”