BOBBY MARKS, in his fourth season as the Nets vice president of basketball operations and 15th with the team overall, assists Nets President Rod Thorn and General Manager Kiki Vandeweghe in the areas of salary cap management, team travel and the day to day business of basketball operations.

In addition to his current title, Marks also serves as director of player development. In that role, Marks helps provide a smooth transition for new Nets players joining the team for the first time and assists current players with their everyday needs.

While in college, Marks was a member of the Marist football team, and received his B.A. in communications in 1995. Upon graduation, he joined the Nets as an intern in the public relations department and did a second internship in the basketball operations department. Hired in January of 1996 as a basketball operations assistant, Marks is the longest tenured member of the department.

The Little Falls native currently resides in West Orange, New Jersey with his wife, Michelle, and sons, Jake and Cooper.

TIM WALSH, a New Jersey native, returned to the metropolitan area for the 2000-01 NBA season and is beginning his 10th season as head athletic trainer for the Nets. Tim spent 1997-00 in a similar position for the Orlando Magic after serving as assistant trainer for the New York Knicks for 13 seasons. Walsh, a certified member of the National Athletic Trainers Association, the American College of Sports Medicine and the National Strength Conditioners Association, oversees the immediate medical needs of the team's players, including the prevention, treatment and rehabilitation of injuries.

A graduate of Upsala College, Walsh joined the Knicks in 1984, where he played an integral role on the Knicks' training staff. In addition to his training duties, Walsh took on the added responsibilities of attending to New York's practice and training facilities, while also being responsible for the supervision of player equipment and uniforms.

Walsh is a Performance Enhancement Specialist, certified by the National Academy of Sports Medicine. He recently completed his two-year term as chairman of the National Basketball Athletic Trainers Association and is currently the immediate past chairman. In 2004, Walsh was named 'Trainer of the Year' by the National Basketball Athletic Trainers Association.

In 2003, Walsh was named by USA Basketball as an athletic trainer for the 2003 and 2004 USA Basketball Men's Senior National Team, serving as the team's trainer in the 2004 Olympics in Athens, Greece. In his second season with the Nets, Tim added an All-Star Game to his credentials, as he worked the 2002 NBA All-Star Game in Philadelphia.

Walsh attended Essex Catholic High School, where he was a two-time All-County catcher and team MVP as a senior. He was named Essex Catholic's outstanding athlete as a senior for both his exploits in football and baseball. As a catcher at Upsala College, Walsh helped lead his team to three NCAA Division III Championship Tournaments. Tim and his wife, Kathy, have two children, a daughter, Lauren Frances and son, Stephen Philip, and they reside in Washington Township, New Jersey.

GREG POLINSKY, enters his second season as director of player personnel and 11th overall with the Nets. Polinsky joined the Nets as a scout in 1999 and had spent the three previous seasons as the team's director of scouting. A native of St. Louis, Mo., Polinsky played college ball at New Mexico and earned his degree in physical education from Northern Arizona. He began his coaching sojourn in 1981 as an assistant at Howard College (1981-83), and served in a similar capacity at the University of Texas (1983-86) and the University of Alabama (1986-95) before assuming the head coaching post at Georgia Southern, a position he held from 1995-99.

Gregg resides in Birmingham, Alabama with his wife, Cindy, and twin daughters, Abby and Brooke.

GARY SUSSMAN, entering his 15th season with the Nets, was promoted in the summer of 2003 to his current position overseeing the Nets' basketball public relations efforts, which followed eight seasons as the team's director of corporate communications. Besides serving as the Nets' primary spokesperson, Sussman is responsible for all aspects of communications for the team, including day-to-day media interaction, team publicity and game-day media operations. In addition to his public relations duties, Sussman is also in his 15th year as the public address voice of the Nets, which makes him the only NBA executive to assume this nightly 'double-double.'

Prior to joining the Nets, Sussman was the public relations director at Yonkers Raceway for seven years, where his duties included producing and hosting a nationally syndicated, Emmy- nominated television racing program, 'Summer Racing from Yonkers,' as well as hosting an award-winning radio harness racing program on WFAS. Sussman also served as the master of ceremonies for the North American Harness Writers Association national dinner and was a presenter at the Hall of Fame of the Trotter induction ceremonies.

A native of Liberty, New York, Sussman received his B.A. in political science from SUNY-Albany and his M.S. in television/radio from Syracuse University. Gary and his wife, Rosemary, reside in Highland Mills, New York, and have two daughters, Marli, a senior at Cornell University, and Brynn, a junior in high school.