When you’re the first team to be eliminated from the playoffs two years straight, you’ve got to take a deep look at everything — well, almost everything — in hopes of breaking through next time around.
Right at the top of team priorities is bringing back Cam Johnson, the 6’8” wing who like his “twin,” Mikal Bridges, took off after the trade deadline. After averaging 13.9 points and shooting 47/46/82 in Cleveland, he topped that in his 25 regular season games as a Net (all starts) with a 16.6 average on 47/37/85. Then, in the four games vs.