Brooklyn Nets Trying To Make Math Work Without Kyrie Irving, Kevin Durant & Caris LeVert
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Without its three best players, the Brooklyn Nets are struggling to figure out how to make ends meet on offense and defense.
Without its three best players, the Brooklyn Nets are struggling to figure out how to make ends meet on offense and defense.
Forget the discussion about whether the Nets might be a better “team” without Kyrie Irving on the floor. Are they a smarter bet? It’s an interesting question to ponder with the Nets beginning a quick home-and-home series against Irving’s prior team, the Celtics. The NBA Atlantic Division rivals will play Wednesday in Boston, Friday at
Nobody’s saying the Nets are better without Kyrie Irving. But maybe they’ll be better for having had to figure out how to win without him. Bereft of Irving — as well as longer-term injuries to Kevin Durant and Caris LeVert — the Nets have had to rely on team defense. And it carried them to
Maybe it took losing their top three players to convince the Nets to go from Brooklyn Glitz back to Brooklyn Grit. But it’s actually working. Kyrie Irving is going to miss at least the three-game road trip that starts Sunday against the Knicks in the Garden, and Kevin Durant and Caris LeVert will be out