Everything You Need to Know About the Brooklyn Nets' 2015-16 NBA Season

Coming off a first-round exit at the hands of the Atlanta Hawks, the Brooklyn Nets enter the 2015-16 campaign hoping to get back into the weak Eastern Conference playoff field. But given some of their offseason changes, as well as the relative lack of convincing backups or young contributors with unrealized potential, that could be more of a pipe dream than a realistic vision.

It's hard to believe that just a few offseasons back, the Nets were a much-ballyhooed team—on paper—that graced the cover of marquee magazines and seemed to have legitimate championship aspirations. They had brought together a collection of All-Stars and potential All-Stars, overlooking the fact that nearly every major…