We’re coming down the home stretch of the rankings season. From now through Opening Night on October 22, pundits will pop their rankings of all 30 teams on this, that or the other thing. Of course, soon after the season begins, the value of assets will change as contending team GMs notice their needs and try to fill them in.
On Friday, there were two rankings that put the Brooklyn Nets, with all those picks and all that cap space, in the top four of two rankings: “a point-in-time appraisal and ranking of each NBA team’s assets in the trade market” by Hoopshype and “ranking of the cache of picks for the five teams that hold the most first-round choices as of Sept.