Written by Joe Hulbert at The Lottery Mafia
The Nets aren’t good, but owe their 1st round pick to Boston, making the decision to begin the rebuilding process all the more difficult.
The Brooklyn Nets are the most depressing team in the NBA, they are not only bad but as we have all been told on numerous occasions they do not own their pick. Boston will be the benefits of the hideous seasons the Nets are undergoing and this season should only really be used to develop young talent and to try and make Brook Lopez into the team leader we all know he can be.
Some believe the Nets should just go all in on a rebuild and trade the likes of Brook Lopez and Thaddeus Young, but this to me seems like an utterly pointless tactic that would just not end well.
Firstly, this would almost certainly mean Boston end up with a top two pick that gives them either Ben Simmons or Skal Labissiere, as the Celtics are in the Nets division they absolutely have to think about trying to give Boston the worst pick possible. There are a lot of good players in this draft but the two I have just named look like genuine franchise changers compared to the other guys at this point. If one of these falls into Boston’s hands it would likely be because of lottery luck or Brooklyn just being really bad. This sort of scorched earth tactic may be controversial but they would appreciate it in the long term.
The second negative of tanking for Brooklyn is that they only have one young player to build around and that is Randae Hollis Jefferson. I wrote about his talents a couple of weeks ago for the Lottery Mafia and although I am high on him, he isn’t a very good scorer. It’s extremely difficult to build around a player who cannot score the basketball.
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