After waiting more than a year to get …

After waiting more than a year to get back into the NBA, veteran guard Jamal Crawford admitted he was a little surprised when the Brooklyn Nets came calling last week with an offer to play. “It didn’t feel real in some sense,” Crawford said during a Wednesday night video call with reporters after participating in his first practice with the Nets. “I was going to sleep that night and I woke up like, ‘Did this really happen or was I dreaming? Did the Nets really call and I really signed a contract with them, or agreed to a contract?’ And it was real.”