The Brooklyn Nets were out, swept away, and became a joke in the league for a while. As you know, this team has been seen as a championship-level team since they got both Kevin Durant and Kyrie Irving, but now the Nets have nothing to gain — oh no, the Nets get endless chagrin.
Now the outside world's doubts about the Nets are extremely loud, and Kevin Durant is in the whirlpool, and the heartfelt remarks are endless - there is such a statement, the two cores of the Celtics who swept the Nets are the Nets' "own people". Why? Celtics players Jaylen Brown and Jason Tatum were originally draft picks for the Nets.
Good guys, the Nets were really killed by "their own people"?
In 2013, the aging Celtics decided to rebuild the team, and the team's two biggest champions Paul Pierce and Kevin Garnett were sent to the Nets in exchange for chips such as Gerald Wallace, Henfres, Bogans, Joseph, Marzan Brooks, three unprotected first-round picks (2014, 2016, 2018) and a 2017 first-round pick pick.
By the way, Marshon Brooks in the trading chip is the future "Guangdong men's basketball celebrity".
The Nets were ambitious at the time, wanting to build a luxurious lineup to do something big, but the big gamble on the Green Army made them pay a huge price. The Nets failed to achieve too good results and also hitched a ride on the team's future, with the Celtics making a lot of money due to the team's poor record that made the draft picks extremely high.
Boasting of winning the championship in five years, the Nets went astray from the beginning of the rebuild, and it is no surprise that the luxury battleship they built ran aground. During the Nets' low ebb, because the high draft pick was given to the Celtics, it was a joke for the league for a long time — well, it should be considered "season two" now?
The Celtics cashed out the Nets' draft picks, selecting Jaylen Brown with the third pick in the 2016 draft, and sending him to Philadelphia in 2017 to switch to the third pick, this time with Jason Tatum. The two cores of the Celtics were thus formed, and the Nets could only watch their former counterparts happily count the money.
How the heart is tormented, only the Nets themselves know.
The Nets were able to turn around in the slump because the team got both Kevin Durant and Kyrie Irving, and interestingly, Kyrie Irving played for the Celtics before he joined. The Nets then acquired James Harden through a series of operations, and replaced Ben Simmons with Harden in the middle of the season, but was still depressed and swept out of the first round.
It has to be said that the Celtics are really the bitter masters of the Nets, and have disgraced the Nets twice in the past decade. After sweeping the Nets to advance to the top, the Celtics' official social media said harshly, "After completing the sweep, do you still want to challenge Boston?" "Such a move is really a murderous and ruthless act."
Oh, and one more thing worth mentioning, Celtics head coach Amy Uduka was a former member of the Nets coaching staff.
(Text/Yan Wujun)