The Nets are in one tough spot as the season winds down. They’re currently in eighth place and hold a spot in the dreaded play-in tournament, but there is some hope — if not optimism — that they could make to the sixth seed. But as Kristian Winfield points out, it will not be easy and the Nets will need to win while the Cavaliers, currently the sixth seed (and out of the play-in) and Raptors (in seventh) lose.
As Winfield wrote Sunday...
As of Sunday morning, the Nets (37-34) were four games behind the sixth-place Cavaliers (41-30) and 2.