C.J. Holmes: By extending Jordi Fernández, Sean Marks raised the stakes on himself

NEW YORK — Sean Marks has asked a lot of Brooklyn. He’s asked it to live with the losses, to stare at the standings without flinching and to trust that all the patience, all the picks and all the flexibility were building toward something better. That’s an easier sell when the losing still feels like part of the setup. It gets harder when the general manager starts handing out extensions that ...