4 summers in the past — when Sean Marks was in his first offseason as Brooklyn GM, and latest interim coach Jacque Vaughn a recently hired assistant — they attempted to entice Tyler Johnson to the Nets. 4 years later on, they ultimately bought their male, Far better late than not at all.

Johnson, signed on June 24 to switch the waived Theo Pinson, cleared quarantine in Orlando and begun working towards with the Nets in the NBA restart at Disney.

“My mom even now says Sean is one particular of her favored men and women of all time. We’re quite lucky to be in this placement. I signed that present sheet 4 a long time ago, so I was all set at that time to come to be a Net,” Johnson explained, referring to a restricted absolutely free agent offer sheet.

“Obviously we know the story, Miami matched it. But … we ended up incredibly interested in what was being developed below. So we basically did sign that offer you sheet and I was ecstatic when we bought that call to appear back about listed here.”

Johnson’s mom, Jennifer, has superior cause to like Marks. The Nets’ pitch provided Marks, Vaughn, Brook Lopez, then-mentor Kenny Atkinson, the coaching staff members — oh, and a 4-year, $50 million present sheet.

“When they brought everyone there to that lodge home,” Johnson explained, “that’s when I certainly considered it.”

The Warmth matched, but traded him to Phoenix through the third year of that offer. The Suns dumped him in the fourth, waiving him Feb. 9.

But now he’s on the Nets, wherever it practically seems he belonged.

“I did fulfill Tyler and all round perception was this was a dude we’d enjoy to have with us in our business, a male that understands what it indicates to engage in and think about much more than just himself when he’s on the floor. So he match into the description of what a Web is,” Vaughn claimed.

“Part of life’s twists and turns. We get him a small later, and fortuitous to have him on the workforce now.”

Both equally sides can use just about every other. The Nets have dropped eight players to harm or coronavirus. Soon after a few straight seasons scoring in double figures, Johnson had knee medical procedures that finished that 2018-19 marketing campaign and hindered the start off of this season with the Suns.

“Maybe I wasn’t at 100 per cent. I was working by way of it, seeking to get proper. But I didn’t have that pop, that bounce I made use of to have the place I’d attempt to go up over the major of people. Who is familiar with if that played a part in anything,” reported Johnson, including his knee is Alright now. “I never place any blame everywhere but myself. At the stop of the day I can only manage myself.

“Obviously it didn’t operate out the way I would’ve needed. There was a handful of matters that could’ve gone far better, not necessarily staying anybody’s fault. Coming in and getting the brief improve, it took a lengthy time for absolutely everyone to get on the exact same website page. Regrettably it did not operate out. But fortuitously, I’m in this article. I find myself in a posture in which I can have a minor bit of redemption.”

Johnson gets that shot at redemption and the Nets get the lefty combo guard they preferred several years back. But with $19.2 million salaries the previous two seasons, they’ll spend him just $212,753 during the restart, and have non-Chook rights on him for subsequent time if it works out.

Humbling? Absolutely.

“For absolutely sure. At the time, you come to feel like you have bought the globe at your feet,” Johnson reported. “And you discover as you go on your NBA journey that some areas get the job done for you and some places never.”

For Johnson, Miami worked. He’s hoping Brooklyn does as properly.