Because the Nets don't suck. Like I predicted they will be there for the 8th spot in the end of the year.
10-26 now
Worst record only nets a 25% chance of winning the lottery. This isn't the NFL. As long as the Nets stay bottom 3, we got a shot.
I'm hoping the Nets stay there and someone pushes the Lakers out.
That someone might be the Lakers themselves. Though their record might not show it, they've been playing a lot better lately. They almost beat Sacramento on the road and almost beat OKC at home last night.
As far as the Nets go, rumor has it they're going to blow everything up sans Thad Young and Brook Lopez. At worst, that pick will be top 5.
The Nets have nothing to gain by blowing it all up. Their 1st round picks don't have any meaning for another 3 years, we own them.
They also have nothing to lose because they are already one of the league's worst teams, but I wasn't even going by what I'd like them to do. I was going by what I heard. Charlotte's called about Bogdonovic's availability and the Nets could buy out Johnson to save money. That's all I heard.
But by trading players for picks they are making themselves worse still
as they are trading away proven players for a chance a prospect develops
this means they will still be worse in the short term
which is where we own their picks
they are best at keeping their current core and try lure good vets in free agency/ slightly overpay players to entice them to play for the nets
or trying to trade/ swindle a player that is underused and will immediately improve them
People are continuing to miss what I'm saying. I wasn't even trying to post any opinions on what the Nets should do. I'm just posting what I heard. Charlotte has called about Bogan's availability. Look it up. There's a rumor about the Nets buying out Joe Johnson. Look it up. There you go.
As far as what my opinion is, I don't care what Brooklyn is going to do. They are horrible and nothing is going to get better for another few years no matter what they do. They keep things the way they are in the hopes of landing a good free agent are pretty futile because they have shown the league that they are one pretty incompetent franchise. That and Paul Pierce and Deron Williams, two very good talents when they were at the top of their games, have personally spoken to the media about how bad Brooklyn was for them. You think vets are going to think a place like that is the place for them to stay long-term? And if your retort is, "Well Brooklyn will have money to spend this summer!", then I'll retort that with, "So will just about everyone else in the entire league."
They could also trade Young and Lopez and take the chances of getting some nice young talent back for them. That's not a perfect plan because they would then be taking the chances of the draft helping them which isn't fool-proof. However, since Lopez and Young are as good as they are going to get, and clearly that's not leading the team anywhere, it might be best to hasten the re-build as opposed to just having those guys lead them to be one step above Philadelphia-bad.
Then again, it doesn't matter what the Nets do because again, they are screwed tremendously.
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