The epilogue to the Brooklyn Nets’ season has some nice potential.
With ESPN estimating the Nets to have a less-than-1% chance of catching the Atlanta Hawks to make the East’s Play-In Tournament, we can assume the story has been told. It ended bleakly, sometime around mid-March losses to four of the NBA’s worst teams. Thus, their 2023-’24 campaign will be remembered mostly as disappointing or frustrating, the rest as forgettable.
But the epilogue is a stretch without expectations, a three-week run of contributions from rookies and role players. Better yet, it’s a stretch where wins and losses truly take a backseat to minor developments, like Cam Thomas’ passing or Trendon Watford’s 3-point shooting.