For Ed Davis, the reason to join the Nets was crystal clear: Go with who wants you.
All indications were that wasn’t the Trail Blazers anymore. But after the Nets reached out within minutes of the start of free agency, it made Davis’ choice easy.
“The main thing is they definitely came out aggressive when July 1 hit. I definitely wanted to go to where I was wanted, so that had a lot to do with it,” Davis said Tuesday on a conference call, a day after officially signing a $4.4 million, one-year deal.
“Then, I talked to Allen [Crabbe] and Jeremy [Lin] about the coaching staff and how the organization was run, and it was nothing but great things.