Marc Stein, like a number of Brooklyn Nets fans, wondered aloud this weekend: Are the Nets as currently constituted too good to tank? A Nets fan on Hupu.com, the Chinese version of Reddit, asked recently, “The Nets aren’t interested In Cooper Flagg any more?”
In the preseason, virtually every major gaming house put the number of Brooklyn’s projected wins at 19.5 and the Nets off-season resembled nothing if not a yard sale. The traded their biggest asset to get a plethora of picks. They moved other picks to ensure they will be part of the 2025 and 2026 drafts, both seen as high quality, this year’s perhaps historic.