The Brooklyn Nets closed out 2024 in a promising, yet peculiar position. As a franchise with an abundance of rebuild assets — yet with an admirable, if thematically flawed will to win, they’ve had their fans’ brains in a blender for months now.
Flipping calendars offered them no relief. The Nets split their first two contests of the year, falling to the fellow Flagg-pursuant Toronto Raptors before besting the alleged title-contending Milwaukee Bucks hours later.
Backward as that is, those were the right games for the Nets to win and lose in terms of the big picture.