> “They red-flagged me for my knee. I never had knee problems in my life,” Hartenstein said on the “Roommates Show” podcast with hosts Jalen Brunson and Josh Hart. “The only thing I had something with my back. I knew that. So I’m like maybe it’s my back.”
> “On draft night, my agent’s like, ‘What’s wrong with your knee?’ I’m like, ‘What are you talking about? My knee is fine.’ He’s like, ‘Brooklyn just red-flagged you for your knee so you’ll probably drop a couple spots.”
> “Draft night, they’re like, ‘Houston wants to talk to you,’” Hartenstein said. “At the time, before that I was projected 15 to like 35. And Houston had 43. So I’m like, why do they want to talk to me? I’m on this Zoom call uninterested, pissed, like why am I talking to these people right now? And they ended up drafting me because I got red-flagged.”
> Hartenstein, who worked out for the Nets ahead of the draft, said the problem supposedly arose from his physical with the team. After the draft, he flew back to Germany – his home country – to get checked out by doctors.
> “They’re like, there’s nothing wrong with your knee,” Hartenstein said.
> Sean Marks was the GM of the Nets and used his 22nd pick on another center, Jarrett Allen.
[Source](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ogi0WRgPwlI)
by iksnet
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Wow, guessing Sean Marks thought he’d drop all the way to 57th? That’s kind of a dirty tactic, didn’t know GMs could just do that.
That doesn’t really make sense. Other teams have their own medical teams and conduct their own research.
Why do GM’s have so much job security? Speaking from painful first-hand experience
Like how does Sean Marks still have his job? Not only is he objectively bad at it, he does snake shit like this
Why didn’t Marks red flag Wemby last year? Is he stupid?
[15:05](https://youtu.be/ogi0WRgPwlI?si=GaIy9JYnXLpPtuFC&t=905) he starts talking about the draft, and [17:12](https://youtu.be/ogi0WRgPwlI?si=GaIy9JYnXLpPtuFC&t=1032) he talks about getting red flagged.
Jarret allen is a good pick though
Thats fucked up if true
No one showed up to Isaiah Hartensteins birthday
Huh, this makes a lot of sense because pre draft I remember Hartenstein having a bunch of hype. I thought he was gonna be a monster coming into the league and then he got picked in the 2nd round and I was like wtf guess he sucks.
Do teams not do their own medicals? They just go off other teams red flags? I love IHart but this is a little suspicious.
dirty fucking nets
extremely dirty move by sean marks if true.
If your agent is asking you whats wrong with your knee on draft night(!) maybe your agent is the problem.
Maybe kyrie wasn’t all to blame after all with sean marks being such a douchebag.
This guy got cut from the Rockets and bounced around multiple teams. How can he even claim he was underdrafted? Maybe teams didn’t think he was good.
LOLNets amirite?
If true this is scum behavior by Marks and anyone else involved in this. Disgusting.
This should’ve been reported to the NBAPA by his agent immediately after they found out. Could’ve sued the Nets for the difference in money between the 15th pick and the 43rd pick.
Dw the Nets sabotage there themselves aswell. They loosing millions every year with no end in sight lmao
Don’t other teams do their own physicals
Sean Marks all time snake.
The more likely scenario is he had imaging of his knee which revealed some sort of “issue”, he himself had no knee symptoms (common thing even when your scan shows up abnormal), but teams were swayed by this issue and he feels it was wrong. Actual faking and red-flagging of a non issue could put teams in legal trouble. Also why would anyone purposely red flag a player that was borderline 1st rounder anyway. Cmon people do some actual thinking.
Sean marks is the worst confirmed.
This entire premise assumes that other teams would just blindly follow what the Nets are doing.
Even more of a reason to fire Sean Marks into the sun and send the entire Nets org into a Disaster Draft
Must be Ben Simmon’s doctor who diagnosed him lol
I remember how he was advertised as a German phenom like Dirk and in the mix for late lottery
Piggy backing on other things we all learned from this podcast, [There’s always FUBU](https://youtu.be/ARH1zPgY1P8?si=JgL15M2lv8qpVSGj)
Anyone who’s been lucky enough to have this dude on their team knows he’s always had this weird mysterious fuckery going on where he plays awesome and his teammates play better whenever he’s in, but can’t seem to get a big enough role to do anything. It isn’t the Drummond illusion either, front offices/coaches just jerk him around and fuck him over a lot. Shit sucks.
Id say fuck the Nets, but they fuck themselves without any help
LolNets