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Nets season preview: Pressure is on even in Kevin Durant bummer

When the Nets raised their talent level, they raised the bar with it.

For the first time in years, the Nets actually come into a season with great expectations — albeit somewhat tempered by superstar Kevin Durant’s ruptured Achilles.

“I don’t make guarantees, but of course I [think we can win the title],” Spencer Dinwiddie said. “It has a chance to be a very, very special season.”

Brooklyn backed up its first playoff berth since 2015 by adding Durant, Kyrie Irving and DeAndre Jordan in a splashy summer. While the assumption is Durant will miss the entire season and some of the advanced analytics predict a losing record, the Nets are talking contention.