The Brooklyn Nets need a boost. At 21-31, they’re looking up at the Play-In Tournament, chilling in the Eastern Conference’s 11-seed with two-and-a-half games of breathing room in both directions.
The path ahead does not look any less bumpy. In the five weeks immediately after the All-Star break, Brooklyn plays 19 games, 14 of them on the road. And before we can get there, the Nets have a home-and-home back-to-back with the best team in the league, the Boston Celtics.
But reinforcements have arrived for Brooklyn, and more are on the way. Dennis Schröder, acquired from the Toronto Raptors, had the Barclays Center chanting his name by the end of his Nets debut on Saturday.