The Brooklyn Nets looked more like an MCU film than a basketball team this time two years ago. Even with Ant Man and The Wasp: Quantamania currently bombing at the box office, I mean that in the best possible way. The Nets attracted stars left and right much like a Kevin Feige casting call, adding a new chapter to the NBA’s “superteam” history book.
It started with James Harden’s arrival in Brooklyn, but really began to snowball when Blake Griffin and LaMarcus Aldridge signed with the team during the buyout period. For those of you who also spend your sleepless nights going down YouTube wormholes of random hoop mixtapes, you could also throw Mike James in there as well, who became something of a viral star for his flashy play overseas before joining the Nets with Kevin Durant’s blessing.