Marks was not available to speak to the news media. Still, the team let the trade deadline pass on Thursday afternoon without making a move. He won a championship as a player with the Spurs in 2005. Marks played professionally as a power forward from 1998 to 2011, appearing on six teams in the N.B.A. He was an assistant coach under Gregg Popovich when the Spurs won a championship in 2014. He spent one season as both the team’s director of basketball operations and as the general manager of its Development League affiliate. He spent five years in total with the Spurs in a variety of roles.

Marks, 40, of Auckland, New Zealand, may not be a household name among casual basketball fans - or even among professional basketball players - but the Nets are heralding the hire as a new direction forward for the club.įor the last two seasons, Marks worked as the assistant general manager for the San Antonio Spurs. “I did the Wikipedia,” Lopez said as the Nets wrapped up practice.

After the death of her parents and her own attempt at suicide, she begins a tortuous, soul-searching reevaluation of the road she has taken-and it is only a startling, unconventional act of empowerment that brings her back from the brink.Brook Lopez had to do some research on Thursday when he learned that the Nets had hired Sean Marks to be their new general manager. Tendo sinks lower and lower, time and again an unwitting victim as she struggles to define her role as a woman in the violent, sexist, and drug-addled world she is thrust into at a far-too-tender age. By the age of fifteen she is a gang member, by the age of eighteen a drug addict, and her twenties are marked by a series of abusive and violent relationships with men. As her family falls into debt and her father’s influence wanes, Tendo falls in with the wrong crowd, and other men begin to appear in her life. But labeled “the yakuza kid,” she soon becomes the victim of bullying and discrimination from teachers and classmates at school, and of her father’s drunken rages at home. At once heart-rending and eye-opening, this true-life memoiris a shocking yet intensely moving first-person account of one woman’s experience of growing up in Japan’s yakuza society.īorn into the family of a wealthy crime boss, Shoko Tendo lives her early years in luxury.

Marked by Sean Michael