There has been so much celebration in and around Brooklyn since late Sunday afternoon you would have thought the Dodgers had announced they would be coming back home and a new-age Ebbetts Field was under construction.
Kyrie Irving first, then Kevin Durant — KD is how we all know him, of course — Nothing But Nets. Nothing but the Brooklyn Nets.
It is a bold gambit worth taking, a gambit that left the Knicks settling for a power-forward trifecta consolation prize to go with Elfrid Payton, Wayne Ellington and Reggie Bullock that left MSG’s stock tanking on Monday, a gambit far, far better than sending it all in on graybeards Kevin Garnett and Paul Pierce.