Are Kyrie Irving’s Brooklyn Nets overrated?
If you accept the premise that point spreads determine how teams are “rated” because they reflect a large composite of informed opinion, they might be. Brooklyn is 0-3 against the spread thus far in the 2019-20 NBA season heading into Wednesday night’s game vs. the Indiana Pacers at Barclays Center.
The monkey wrench for analysts is that Brooklyn spent many days during the preseason on the other side of the world. It’s possible that betting markets are underrating the impact of global jet lag rather than overrating Nets’ talent.