Let's start in Brooklyn, who last night became the hot spot in New York, adding Kevin Durant and Kyrie Irving for deals that will approach $300 million.

After a long rebuild, the Brooklyn Nets are finally loaded, with a roster stacked with homegrown

talent and some of the league's biggest stars.

But will Katie and Kyrie buy into the Nets' way of doing things, or will they want to go

their own way?

ESPN's senior writer Jackie McMullen takes us inside a team at a turning point.

I'm Inakimes. It's Wednesday, October 30th. This is ESPN Daily, presented by Dell Small Business. Jackie, right now the Nets are one of the more star-studded teams in basketball.

This summer, they went out and signed Kyrie Irving, Kevin Durant, DeAndre Jordan,

and while Katie's not playing this year, they are still seen as contenders.

But back in 2016, when Coach Kenny Atkinson first came on board,

what did this team look like? And it was just a lot of hope and nothing much to pace it on.

They won 20 games his first year. They didn't win a game in February. And they honestly really

didn't have any genuine talent. Right. They didn't win a game in February. And they honestly really didn't have any genuine talent.

Right. They traded for aging vets like Paul Pierce and Kevin Garnett. Well, it's funny. Billy King and

Prokeroff before them decided to put all their chips in and give away all of their future first

round picks. I mean, it was one of the most lopsided deals in history.

It's one thing, right, to have young players and not win a lot of games, I think we call that tanking. But they couldn't even do that because they weren't even eligible to get the draft

picks. The draft picks were going to the Boston Celtics who were picking guys like Jalen

Brown and Jason Tatum with those picks. So the Nets were behind the eight ball. Then when they hired a

new GM, Sean Marks in 2016, what was his approach? Well, Sean was just, he's just so smart.

And Kenny's the same way. They were really stuck on what's our culture going to be. We're going to

play unselfishly. It's going to be a player first organization. We're going to stress analytics. We're going to be? We're going to play unselfishly. It's going to be a player first organization.

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