Sean Marks took over the Brooklyn Nets, a complete mess of a team, from their Russian owner, Prokhorov. The team's future looked bleak, but he accepted this incredibly difficult challenge and confidently told the owner, "In five years, we'll be contenders for the championship again."
Jonathan Jockel was optimistic about his career, but also had a clear-eyed understanding of himself. Being captain of an NCAA championship team had done little to help him make it to the NBA. Over the past year, he had bounced between three G League teams, and eventually helped the Raptors 905 win the G League championship. But Jonathan had begun to sense that the door to the NBA was slowly closing on him.
In a high school gym somewhere in Pennsylvania, their lives crossed paths for the first time...
