The 2013-14 season will be remembered as a big, if disappointing, time for the Brooklyn Nets. The Nets had traded for Kevin Garnett and Paul Pierce and signed Andrei Kirilenko the previous summer and hired Jason Kidd to coach them. They already had Deron Williams, Brook Lopez and Joe Johnson on the roster. A championship beckoned.
Instead, there was all manner of controversy as the Nets started slow and the new acquisitions looked their age. Kidd got Tyshawn Taylor to spill water on him and got the front office to exile Lawrence Frank, brought in to help him in his rookie year as coach.