The story that was not written

Once upon a time, the best "ball handler" with the potential best player in the NBA together on a team. Joined them the top scorer. The top scorer fell in the water, who remains? The best player and the best ball handler. These last two fall into the water who remains? A Ben Simmons with back pain.

The first year, with Irving injured, Harden injured but playing and Durant left to his own, Brooklyn losing in game 7 over time literally because of a shoe size that was too big, against the champions no problem. The Nets are quickly forgiven and fans are already dreaming of a next season filled with victory and nothing less then a championship.

The next season begins and everyone expects an easy victory for the Nets. Even Vegas betting had them favorite to win it all.

The real problems started, as everyone knows, with Irving refusing to get vaccinated. The bearded man clearly didn't come to go out to the clubs like some expected but he is there to play basketball and win. However he quickly noticed that Irving did not have the same ambitions as him. A season and a half in he decided to leave the boat and join a player who cries after the defeats because he wants to win as much, if not more, than Harden, the 76ers led by Joel Embiid.


This season, Uncle Drew has monopolized on public attention: the vaccine controversy, the middle finger in Boston, and then – days from the Free Agency – that sudden Lakers rumor. LeBron James was waiting for him and probably started dreaming about another title and the story of how Irving came back to see daddy after all these years. Finally, at the beginning of last week, Kyrie Irving came to shower Californian hopes by activating his player option in Brooklyn. End of fantasies, Sean Marks closes the door, everyone stays.

Until...

Shams Charania


Explosing in the NBA world!

From the moment Shams Charania tweets, the Nets failure is pronounced. A Big Three, made up of two MVPs and the best ball handler the sport has ever known, broken up after only a season and a half? No matter how hard we look, we could not find any fail half this size.

Do you know what further accentuates this failure? This is the project sacrificed to bring these guys together. Remember the Brooklyn Nets 2018-19 edition: D'Angelo Russell, Caris LeVert, Spencer Dinwiddie, Jarrett Allen, Jared Dudley and the irreducible Joe Harris, the only bolt retained in the current layout.

Sean Marks played and lost. With the General Manager job he holds, had there been a leak of information, Nets fans would still have blamed him for not getting Kyrie Irving, James Harden and Kevin Durant together in Brooklyn, even if- what to "ensure at least one title". He did, but it didn't work. Can we blame this failure on him? Probably not.