Keep your eyes on Brooklyn this Summer
The Brooklyn Nets got swept out of the playoffs. If I wrote that sentence in 2013, it’d make some sense to me. Writing it when the Nets have Kevin Durant and Kyrie Irving in 2022 is troubling. The Boston Celtics out coached and out played Brooklyn in every aspect of the game. Brooklyn was the title favorite at the beginning of the year and for majority of the regular season—even with everything that went wrong for the Nets. The consensus favorite got swept out of the first round. Brooklyn’s “Super team” assembled in the summer of 2019 has failed in three straight seasons. Make whatever excuse you want, they have failed. This point is extremely interesting for what the immediate future might hold for the Nets. We’ve seen in the past and the present; perceived great teams drastically under preform and get bounced in the playoffs. Even teams with all-time players. However, we’ve never seen a situation like this. Brooklyn right now seems like a pot on the stove that’s about to boil over.