The NBA has not been peaceful recently, many players have triggered the league's health and safety agreements, and even some players have had to use difficult exceptions to sign 10-day short contract players due to insufficient personnel rotation.
Durant was also shot, and the Nets were almost completely wiped out
The Nets officially announced that Durant triggered a health and safety agreement. At this point, he became the eighth player on the Nets to trigger a health and safety agreement, the other seven being Ade, Harden, Millsap, Bemburi, Bruce Brown, James Johnson and Jervan Carter, directly triggering a set of main rotation lineups, and the whole team was almost completely destroyed.
In addition to these 8 players, the team Joe Harris has been suspended due to injury and cannot return recently, while Irving, although allowed to return to the team to play away games, needs to undergo rigorous testing to play, so he may not be able to return in the near future. In this way, the Nets directly missed 10 main players and rotating players.
Durant's absence has a great impact on the Nets, and the recent Nets can also win consecutive victories in the absence of Harden, Durant is indispensable, averaging 37.5 points, 9 rebounds and 8.5 assists in the last four games, which is the team's undoubted "thigh". In addition, Durant also surpassed Curry in the NBA's latest MVP list, ranking No. 1, which shows his strength. If Durant were to be suspended for a few games, the Nets would be in a tough position.
With Durant and Harden both triggering a suspension of the security agreement, we can only hope that Irving will return as soon as possible and play away games to help the team through this crisis.
The Nets rotate only 15 million, and Nash is too difficult
Due to the absence of the team's 10 main rotation players, in the next game against the Magic and other teams, the Nets lineup is Mills, Griffin two veterans, Clarkston a young player, Edwards, Thomas, Sharp and Duke four rookies, and the newly signed 10-day short contract Harrison, Ennis and Galloway, it is really miserable; and the total salary of these 10 players is about 15.5 million, an average of only 1.5 million per person.
This is too difficult for Nash, who has been led by Durant at the MVP level, coupled with the enthusiasm of a number of young players on the court, and can break the wrist with some teams; now that the big three are all absent, only the veteran Mills and Griffin are two important rotation players, I am afraid that winning will be very difficult.
However, the NBA league has recently considered returning players who trigger safety agreements but have no symptoms, and if this rule can be implemented, it will be good news for the Nets, after all, Nash has previously said that "players who trigger safety agreements have no symptoms." But before that rule comes down, Nash may have to think hard about how he can use the youngsters to defend his team's status as number one in the East.