The Nets mercifully canned Steve Nash today in what surely came as a tremendous relief to him personally, his family, and other loved ones generally.
In Brooklyn we have perhaps the most disgraceful form that modern basketball has yet taken. While the NBA and its players have been slowly drifting towards a world of ever-shorter, ever-larger contracts and greater theoretical free agent flexibility, the Nets jumped the gun in making a bid to become the worst offenders in a sport where anti-competition lurks ever-present beneath the surface in service to media/business/legacy interests.
Thankfully, while karma may not factually exist, the concept taps into the truth that bad or mercurial actors tend towards behaviors that will accrete and ultimately doom whatever enterprise they’re involved in.