NBA The domino effect that prompted Brooklyn to rebuild its squad in recent years
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L.the Nets de Brooklyn They are the thrill team for the NBA season. Bringing together Kevin Durant, Kyrie Irving and James Harden, they have three of the best players in the league, that they were among the top 10 teams in the league in their last healthy season (Harden was the first team of All NBA, Kyrie and KD in the second), They wouldn’t have made it to Brooklyn if Nick Young hadn’t cheated on Iggy Azalea.
Yes, you read that correctly, but for that you have to talk about the precarious situation the Nets found themselves in mid-decade, because they reflected various memes on social networks.
The ex-owner of the team, the Russian Mikhail Prokhorov, he took over the team in May 2010. In search of stars for the new arena he would build in Brooklyn, he didn’t tempt his heart or skimp on resources. I have Deron Williams on the first trade deadline in 2011 and 2013 and two players).
In the summer of 2012 he took over Joe Johnson by 5 players and their first round of 2013, and in July 2013 the Celtics sent 4 players and first round picks in 2014, 2016 and 2018, in addition to the option to switch places in 2017, by Kevin Garnett and Paul Pierce. Selections that ultimately choose James Young, Jaylen Brown, Markelle Fultz and Collin Sexton, last three top 8 as Brooklyn’s ‘super team’ was only one on 13/14, as Pierce left for Washington at the end of the season.
Only Joe Johnson was left on 15/16, which was dropped from that campaign in February the Nets had one of the worst teams in the league, only won one series in the playoffs and no future options due to still several selections due to Boston.
So the Nets decided to make their ‘Process’, much less well known than the 76ers because it wouldn’t make them lose ‘on purpose’ like the Sixers, because their tow bars weren’t really theirs. So they didn’t mind cutting the payroll and With the salary cap, they became partners to receive tough trade deals between other teams and by taking that effort, they began to win back concept choices., including one in 2017 that will cast Jarrett Allen. This is where ‘Swaggy P’ comes in, Nick Young. Yes, the same of one of the most popular memes on the web.
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The guard was then in the Lakers, one of the worst teams in the NBA in the mid-decade, and he ran into trouble because his then-teammate D’Angelo Russell, halfway through his sophomore year in the NBAAs it turned out, Young was cheating on his then-girlfriend, rapper Iggy Azalea.
Russell was separated from the plantHe for the last games of the season and the team didn’t want him anymore. They change it to Brooklyn in the summer along with Timofey Mozgov’s contract for Brook Lopez and a first-round pick that would eventually become Kyle Kuzma. A domino effect started that ended in the new Big Three.
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In July, the Nets took a first round of 2018. On the 2018 transaction deadline, they took two second rounds, a second round in the summer of 2018 and a first round of 2019, and in the summer of 2019 a first round of 2020. .
And the most surprising: The team, with unknown players and an All-Star-level Russell, made it to the Playoffs two years in a row. They topped up the picks in the design and had caproom, plus the appeal of New York play. It was expected that pstars in the most anticipated free agency in years, 2019, and boy were they protagonists.
They started out by signing Kyrie Irving, who left Boston after two tumultuous seasons. Russell got a contract extension so he could sign and trade with the Warriors for Kevin Durant, submitting one of his first round choices that he had acquired in the previous years and two more players.
With Durant eliminated for the entire 19/20 season thereafter fracture the Achilles tendon in the 2019 final and still with Kyrie on board, they knew they were not going to be contenders. They reached the Playoffs again despite several injuries, including Kyrie, and the chance to get Harden came last weekwhich they achieved using some of the young players they had (Caris LeVert, Jarrett Allen, Taurean Prince and Rodions Kurucs), as well as sending their first round pick to Houston in 2022, 2024 and 2026, plus four possible position changes in 2021, 2023, 2025 and 2027, although 2021 will hardly have a better position in draft than the Rockets.
A single detail: They only have Durant, Kyrie and Harden under contract this season and next season, with player options for 22/23. They’re going to pull out all the stops for the title in the near future, but there’s also a risk that Pierce, Deron and Joe Johnson will return to the post-KG stage as they’ve used all of their picks from most of the decade to sign them.
A radical change in three years. From the worst team in the league to one of the contenders for the title and who The first piece to trigger the domino effect was D’Angelo Russell revealing Nick Young’s infidelity. This League …