NEW YORK — Step 1 for the new-look Nets? Start speaking the same language.
In Mikal Bridges’ first game as a Nets starter after Kevin Durant’s trade to the Phoenix Suns, he accidentally called a play the Suns used to run with he and Cam Johnson.
Something similar happened in Spencer Dinwiddie’s first game back in Brooklyn: He and Dorian Finney-Smith, both acquired in the Kyrie Irving trade to the Mavericks, spoke using terminology they used in Dallas.