The team that’s resuming their NBA season on July 31 against the Orlando Magic doesn’t share many resemblances to the one that played 64 regular-season games before the league suspended play on March 11.
The Nets will be without the services of Kevin Durant (nothing new here), Kyrie Irving, Nicolas Claxton, Wilson Chandler, DeAndre Jordan, and, maybe, Spencer Dinwiddie. In their place lies replacement players of sorts, fliers, shots in the dark that may emerge into the light; Brooklyn now essentially acts as a home to an island of NBA misfit toys.