So here we are, between Woj Bombs, ready for free agency to begin in a matter of hours. The first bomb has detonated: barring anything catastrophic, Kyrie Irving who grew up modeling his game after Jason Kidd will be a Net soon.
It is shocking on so many levels. That the promise of Brooklyn as a destination, postponed because of a foolish move six years ago, now seems to ready to be fulfilled. The rebuild, as daunting as it was, seems over. As we’ve noted before, the Nets have gone from a “long, long way to go” to a “long way to go” to “WAY TO GO!