The Nets’ brightest young player is down and out for at least a few months. Now they need their biggest disappointment to wake up from his season-long slumber.
Caris LeVert’s dislocated right foot has created an opening for Allen Crabbe, and coach Kenny Atkinson seems willing to give the veteran wing a shot at filling the canyon-sized void left by losing the Nets’ leading scorer.
“I take Allen Crabbe’s body of work — his whole body of work — and think he’ll get out of this little rut, and it’ll [get to] where it belongs,” the Nets coach said Thursday following practice, a day after he inserted Crabbe into the starting lineup.