It’s nice to watch basketball without expectations. Certainly, there are none left for the 2023-’24 Brooklyn Nets, who will not be playing postseason basketball in any form, and whose players are not in line for any award ceremonies at the end of the regular season.
Okay, “nice” may oversell it. The alternative would mean more wins, and thus, less misery, but when the Nets took on the Washington Wizards to complete their four-game road trip on Wednesday, it was just a run-of-the-mill NBA game between two teams whose spirits are already well into the offseason.