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At the beginning of the 2024-25 NBA Season, the Brooklyn Nets laid out a clear plan for how they wanted to approach the season, trade away their valuable players for as many assets as possible and lose any game that they could.
The Brooklyn Nets should’ve immediately hit the rebuild button after trading away Superstar Kevin Durant to the Phoenix Suns in February of 2023. The Nets decided to see things out though with their new young pieces, Mikal Bridges and Cam Johnson.
After a rough season and a half of trying to see things through with both players, the Nets made it clear that the experiment had pretty much run its course when they traded Mikal Bridges to their crosstown rival, the New York Knicks, in June of 2024.
At the start of this season, reports were published stating that the Nets were ready to trade some of their top players, Dennis Schröder, Dorian Finney-Smith and also Cam Johnson. With less than a month remaining in the season, Johnson is the only one of that trio that remains on the Nets’ roster, and the team’s record isn’t as bad as some fans would like it to be.
With 10 games remaining in the season and the Nets currently 7 and a half games behind the final Eastern Conference Play-In spot, the team most likely won’t sniff the Play-In Tournament. With that said and the NBA’s Draft Lottery happening on May 12, the Nets focus at the moment should be losing as many of those 10 upcoming games as possible.
The worse your record is as a team, the higher the likelihood is that you’ll land the first overall pick in the NBA Draft. With that said and three tremendous prospects currently projected to headline the 2025 NBA Draft’s top draft selections, the Nets focus should be on their future, not pointless regular season games.
With four NBA teams already eliminated from NBA Playoff contention, the Brooklyn Nets should do their best to find themselves eliminated as soon as possible. If not, the team could find themselves in the NBA’s purgatory for a long time, and see their rebuild go on for longer than it needs to.
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