Call me crazy but I think Nets are in the WORST position of any team. Obviously Wizards and Pistons are struggling now but they can tank and have their picks.
Nets got greedy as fuck. KD and Kyrie wasn’t enough so you had to relinquish the rights to your picks for 5 years for Harden?
Nets are spending close to $170m this year. Ben is owed $40m next season. They don’t have their pick in 2024/2026. 2025/2027 are swaps and Houston is looking decent and I’d imagine are gonna be solid in 2025 & 2027.
So Nets CANT tank. If they miss playoffs they will lose lottery picks to Houston. They’re not good enough to compete with this current roster.
They do have the Suns picks but feels like they will all be worse than their own.
Really feels like this team is gonna be stuck at the 8-11 seed next 2-3 years. Not have their own pick. Not have the best cap to sign free agents.
Cam Thomas and Claxton are seen as solid young pieces but you have to pay them soon.
Just feels like the team is stuck in mediocrity right now. Mikal is good and potential all-star but that’s the best right there. Ben doesn’t have trade value. Cam Johnson is solid but idk how much he goes for either. And if you sell, you can’t just tank bc then you lose your pick.
But it’s their fault they handed Tatum and Brown to the Celtics on a silver platter they deserve this shit for not trying atleast one season of Kyrie and KD together. Championship favorites go all-in like really All-in was nuts.
All I can say is they’re lucky they got to move KD for a massive haul. If he walked last offseason instead of the extension we’d be seeing Bobcats level bad play w no Bridges or Johnson and no Suns pick. We’d see Rockets clean up more lottery picks while Nets win 9 games
Ben is an expiring $40m this upcoming Offseason and the Nets have a bunch of 1st’s they can add if any “Star” demands a Trade. Either straight up or via a 3 Team Deal.
Brooklyn is also in position to potentially have a bunch of Cap Space in the 2025 Offseason before Bridges cheap contract expires.
The whole reason the Celtics got Brown/Tatum was because Sean Marks at the time saw those 1st’s as a “Sunk Cost” and went through with a rebuild instead of doubling down on Brook Lopez, Thad Young, and Bojan Bogdanovic to which would have kept them around an 8 seed with the Cap Spike.
That isn’t the case here because the Nets still had a bunch of talent after Trading away Kyrie West and Durant.
Idk how you have long term faith in the Suns.
Durant is already 35yrs old, Beal is an old 30, and Booker is already injury prone while in his physical prime.
Suns also Traded away every Swap and 1st they have until 2030 and need to wait for every Offseason just for a new 1st or Swap to come available to potentially Trade away.
Also KD locked in his Extension 2yrs ago so he couldn’t have “walked” on the Nets.
He was smart unlike Harden who passed on a 3y/$161m Extension (on top of his 2yrs of Player Options) then gave up a guaranteed 5y/$270m Contract in Brooklyn for a 2y/$68m deal in Philly only to then cried about it afterwards.
Same w/ Kyrie who had to settle for the 3y/$126m Mav’s offer after refusing the sign a 4y/$187m Extension w/ Brooklyn (which was pulled after Kyrie West went Anti-Vax) and demanding a Trade if they didn’t give him a 4-5yr $200-250m “Fully Guaranteed Contract” with “No Strings Attached”.
Call me crazy but I think Nets are in the WORST position of any team. Obviously Wizards and Pistons are struggling now but they can tank and have their picks.
Nets got greedy as fuck. KD and Kyrie wasn’t enough so you had to relinquish the rights to your picks for 5 years for Harden?
Nets are spending close to $170m this year. Ben is owed $40m next season. They don’t have their pick in 2024/2026. 2025/2027 are swaps and Houston is looking decent and I’d imagine are gonna be solid in 2025 & 2027.
So Nets CANT tank. If they miss playoffs they will lose lottery picks to Houston. They’re not good enough to compete with this current roster.
They do have the Suns picks but feels like they will all be worse than their own.
Really feels like this team is gonna be stuck at the 8-11 seed next 2-3 years. Not have their own pick. Not have the best cap to sign free agents.
Cam Thomas and Claxton are seen as solid young pieces but you have to pay them soon.
Just feels like the team is stuck in mediocrity right now. Mikal is good and potential all-star but that’s the best right there. Ben doesn’t have trade value. Cam Johnson is solid but idk how much he goes for either. And if you sell, you can’t just tank bc then you lose your pick.
But it’s their fault they handed Tatum and Brown to the Celtics on a silver platter they deserve this shit for not trying atleast one season of Kyrie and KD together. Championship favorites go all-in like really All-in was nuts.
All I can say is they’re lucky they got to move KD for a massive haul. If he walked last offseason instead of the extension we’d be seeing Bobcats level bad play w no Bridges or Johnson and no Suns pick. We’d see Rockets clean up more lottery picks while Nets win 9 games
So yeah that loss did fuck them
Ben is an expiring $40m this upcoming Offseason and the Nets have a bunch of 1st’s they can add if any “Star” demands a Trade. Either straight up or via a 3 Team Deal.
Brooklyn is also in position to potentially have a bunch of Cap Space in the 2025 Offseason before Bridges cheap contract expires.
The whole reason the Celtics got Brown/Tatum was because Sean Marks at the time saw those 1st’s as a “Sunk Cost” and went through with a rebuild instead of doubling down on Brook Lopez, Thad Young, and Bojan Bogdanovic to which would have kept them around an 8 seed with the Cap Spike.
That isn’t the case here because the Nets still had a bunch of talent after Trading away Kyrie West and Durant.
Idk how you have long term faith in the Suns.
Durant is already 35yrs old, Beal is an old 30, and Booker is already injury prone while in his physical prime.
Suns also Traded away every Swap and 1st they have until 2030 and need to wait for every Offseason just for a new 1st or Swap to come available to potentially Trade away.
Also KD locked in his Extension 2yrs ago so he couldn’t have “walked” on the Nets.
He was smart unlike Harden who passed on a 3y/$161m Extension (on top of his 2yrs of Player Options) then gave up a guaranteed 5y/$270m Contract in Brooklyn for a 2y/$68m deal in Philly only to then cried about it afterwards.
Same w/ Kyrie who had to settle for the 3y/$126m Mav’s offer after refusing the sign a 4y/$187m Extension w/ Brooklyn (which was pulled after Kyrie West went Anti-Vax) and demanding a Trade if they didn’t give him a 4-5yr $200-250m “Fully Guaranteed Contract” with “No Strings Attached”.
Those Suns picks won’t be good. Maybe 2029 because it’s very far away and hard to predict but I still doubt the Suns gift wrap them a top-5 pick.