The Brooklyn Nets season is now officially over. At this point, fan attention will be consumed by the Nets plans to rebuild, retool, whatever you want to call it.
As Yossi Gozlan of Hoopshype writes Sunday, re-tooling makes sense, rebuilding, that is a tear-down, does not.
Brooklyn still owes Houston two unprotected first-round picks in 2024 and 2026, as well as two first-round pick swaps in 2025 and 2027. This rules out bottoming out at least for the next three seasons since it wouldn’t reward them. The Nets are more incentivized to build the best team possible and continue competing at a high level.