The Brooklyn Nets will make yet another run at more shooters in the restricted free agency market after last year's failed attempt to attain the services of Allen Crabbe and Tyler Johnson.
General manager Sean Marks is reportedly ready to offer some beefy contracts to Washington Wizards swingman Otto Porter and Detroit Pistons sharpshooter Kentavious Caldwell-Pope, according to ESPN's Marc Stein.
The Nets were the sixth-worst three-point shooting team last season, mustering only 33.8 percent from beyond the three-point arc, hence the growing interest in two of the hottest-shooting wings in the market.
Both players would be a perfect fit on any team, with a versatile en-vogue three-and-D archetype, as Caldwell-Pope and Porter both average over a steal per game.
Crabbe and Johnson each got their offers matched by the Portland Trail Blazers and the Miami Heat, respectively — resulting in a muted summer in Brooklyn despite the addition of point guard Jeremy Lin.
Brooklyn will have approximately $30 million in available cap space to make these lucrative offers, but both the Wizards and Pistons have extended qualifying offers (more of a formality nowadays) to their respective players.
Each team will can match any incoming offers within a 48-hour window.
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