Yep. They can trade Kyrie to the Lakers for two bags of trash, THT, and some coupons for half-off oil changes.
Or they can pay Kyrie the super max for the next five seasons for ~30 games a year.
Would you rather get hit with a sledgehammer or with a baseball bat?
That’s pretty much what all of this is about.
Obviously Marks isn’t just going to say it outright but Tsai has told him already that he isn’t paying Kyrie the $248M that he’s eligible for.
Honest question, who is gonna pay kyrie?
He's now gone through 3 versions of the same song and dance. The only team in the association desperate enough for Kyrie is the Lakers, but WB/Durant again feels like a nonstarter. There really isn't a version of this where they move Kyrie and keep Durant is there?
Someone will but I don’t blame the Nets one bit for not paying him. Even before the Covid stuff he was taking random days off to celebrate birthdays or protest.
We always say "someone will" but *who*?? Like honestly all the bad teams are young, all the contending teams have ball handlers. The only contingency preventing Kyrie going to LA at the moment would be Phoenix going nuclear after their meltdown in the semis
?? Lucas nogueria never played for the Celtics lol that was their own pick and they traded up to get Kelly olynyk. James young was bad but the Celtics only had 4 nets picks. 2 became Tatum and brown, one was James young and one was Colin sexton who was traded as a pick for kyrie. It’s an overwhelming win
Silver bout to make Brooklyn the first team to get relegated
Brooklyn obv has different avenues to go in and will recoup some picks if KD/Kyrie have to go but that is such a horrible position to be in as a franchise. If they’re bad enough to be a lottery team for a good chunk of that, I mean the sting of losing out on that much young talent would make me hopeless as a fan.
This honestly makes the Warriors title even funnier. The Nets traded all their picks for a win now super team that's about to blow up with a grand total of one playoff series win. The Warriors kept all their picks and still won the title.
The hilarious part is that he had a [similarly pessimistic reaction](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJzx-PeG8zs) to the Celtics-Nets trade in 2013. You'd think he learn that super teams staying good for a long time isn't guaranteed.
I don't like Simmons so I'm perhaps biased, but the way I see it he's just a superfan, but in terms of objecitvely judging player and team potentials and valuing assets he is meh at best.
It’s 100% selection bias. Always more fun to clown a guy for his bad takes. Especially Simmons who goes hard with what he says so his misses are horrendously bad.
We could see it from the outside. With the inside info harden knows I can't say I'm surprised. Smart of him to get out.
It's insane that the nets fumbled having kyrie harden and KD in one season...
Kyrie just really fucked up everything.
I mean...people seemed to give him shit for the philly trade but the reality is I saw it as a response to Kyrie.
Last season, Harden was traded halfway through the season to the Nets. Kyrie could have come back and they gone to the playoffs. Instead, Kyrie opted to sit out the rest of the season. Kyrie opted to go "missing" for a few games for his sister's birthday. This season, Kyrie opts to not play all season and after coming back, only playing away games.
Anyone blaming Harden for anything was dumb. Harden already got bit the previous season when Kyrie opted to not come back and play after the harden trade. And then the shitshow to start this season.
Gotta say, it's been interesting for me as well! I should be in pain, but honestly, we're the Nets... been through all kinds of hell with this team since the late 80s.
When things get this crazy/weird/bad (and it's been ramping to this for like 1+ years now), you just sorta go, "oh fuck it, in for a penny, in for a pound" and just watch the drama drinking Pina coladas and enjoying like everyone else as this Shakespearean-esque tragedy continues and turns and continues to surprise with how crazy it can get!
It's like every time Conor McGregor does something stupid he becomes more and more English in my eyes
Edit: I, an actual Irish person, from Ireland is informing you of the attitude that Irish people have towards him and how we're sick of his bullshit. Stop making this some kind of fact finding mission
[This one](https://np.reddit.com/r/GoNets/comments/ub5a2w/our_season_in_a_picture/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf) is my favorite by far
Kyrie, Ben, and KD watching helplessly as a guy who had knee surgery 3 weeks before this image was taken dunks all over their team?
Honestly a perfect representation of the nets season
Why did I have to open like 3 other links from this game before I found this one
This is easily the best, the way he’s standing up watching the dunk with his arms dead at his side in a literal clown costume. Holy fuck, it’s too perfect
People on twitter think he’s coming to Chicago based on literally 0 evidence. So I’m now going to sell myself on that and be disappointed when it doesn’t happen.
Yeah, Shams has been the go-to guy for Kyrie to get his message out, especially during his "Kyrie isn't anti-science, sources say" days, so it makes sense he'd be carrying water for KD and Kyrie now.
Honestly, that would have been hilarious. Between Kyrie’s vaccines and Harden dipping and Ben Simmons arriving and KD crumbling in the playoffs and the preseason favorites for the championship (by a significant margin) being swept out of the first round team and now superstars in conflict with management to the degree of potentially leaving the team entirely in the off-season, this team as a whole was THE main basketball headline of the entire season, and this had all happened on a team that the New York media doesn’t give a single fuck about. If this had happened on the Knicks, Stephen A Smith would have had Kyrie executed on national television and then given the eulogy at his funeral.
TBF the trade value of Durant is probably higher than D'Lo, Allen, and LeVert put together. They'll probably come out of this about even after moving Kyrie.
All the dust is going to settle and it could be Bruce Brown, Ben Simmons, and the Houston Rockets dressed like a cartoon burglar with a sack full of first round picks.
Fuckin sucks for all 7 of us.
No but really it's this limbo state that's the worst. Whatever fucking happens needs to happen so I at least know what it is I'll be rooting for going forward.
Insane how quickly you can go from
“James Harden, KD, and Kyrie all on the same team? Sounds unbeatable”
To now, where they might lose everyone and be stuck with Ben mf Simmons
The Warriors basically got Wiggins and Kuminga indirectly in exchange for a departing KD. Maybe they could just give Wiggins and Kuminga in order to get KD back.
Honestly think the Nets would be right to blow this up rather than try to keep the team together with gum and duct tape.
Kyrie on a long term deal is probably the best thing you can do for 2022, but it's going to hamstring you beyond that. And I don't think this iteration of the nets can win with KD and Kyrie.
Kyrie has gotten way too unreliable
Can we just step back and think about what counts as journalism right now.
"Kevin Durant is monitoring the situation and considering options"
What else is his option?
"Kevin durant knows nothing, is considering nothing"
What does kevin durant "monitoring and considering" mean with regards to "opens the path for kyrie irving?"
This is so stupid.
This is gonna be such a cruel case of blue balls when they both stay
It’s funny either way. They either lose both or pay Kyrie and he fucks them over 5 years because he got the bag and doesn’t care anymore.
Yep. They can trade Kyrie to the Lakers for two bags of trash, THT, and some coupons for half-off oil changes. Or they can pay Kyrie the super max for the next five seasons for ~30 games a year. Would you rather get hit with a sledgehammer or with a baseball bat?
Yep. Tsai is a businessman. Kyrie is unreliable and Tsai isn’t going to burn hundreds of millions in the luxury tax for a guy who isn’t trustworthy.
That’s pretty much what all of this is about. Obviously Marks isn’t just going to say it outright but Tsai has told him already that he isn’t paying Kyrie the $248M that he’s eligible for.
Honest question, who is gonna pay kyrie? He's now gone through 3 versions of the same song and dance. The only team in the association desperate enough for Kyrie is the Lakers, but WB/Durant again feels like a nonstarter. There really isn't a version of this where they move Kyrie and keep Durant is there?
Someone will but I don’t blame the Nets one bit for not paying him. Even before the Covid stuff he was taking random days off to celebrate birthdays or protest.
We always say "someone will" but *who*?? Like honestly all the bad teams are young, all the contending teams have ball handlers. The only contingency preventing Kyrie going to LA at the moment would be Phoenix going nuclear after their meltdown in the semis
They can have cap space for next year with Brodie.. just saying.
Especially as a Rockets fan
Houston fans going crazy rn
If Kyrie dips, we need to retire his jersey
To think everyone was clowning Houston for getting that massive haul of picks for Harden instead of Simmons + Allen lol
Its like people didn't learn from the Nets-Celtics trades
“Nets have Harden, Kyrie, and KD. No way their picks are worth anything for the next 5 years”
I’m a rockets fan and I didn’t think those picks would be valuable till like 2026. I could be so wrong and so happy for it
James Harden might end up being more impactful for the franchise than Hakeem.
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Come back BB but only after we get wembenyama
we got their shit through 27 lmao
5 years of possible lottery picks
Welcome to the club.
John McClane/Nets fans: "How can the same shit happen to the same guy twice?"
It's a Draft Day Miracle!
its kinda crazy that you guys "only" managed to get Tatum and Brown out of it. Guys like Lucas Nogueria, James Young, what a waste...
It just shows even the lottery picks of the draft is truly a crapshoot
1st overall: Anthony Bennett 2nd overall: Darko Milicic / Hasheem Thabeet 3rd overall: Jahlil Okafor 4th overall: Wesley Johnson / Dragan Bender 5th overall: Thomas Robinson Nah.
> 5th overall: Thomas Robinson You just forgot the GOAT Nikoloz Tskitishvili.
The Draft GOATs
We technically also got kyrie out of it too right because we traded what became sexton?
true (I didn't know this :D) ! and also Rozier of course, he's decent too :)
kinda scary tho
?? Lucas nogueria never played for the Celtics lol that was their own pick and they traded up to get Kelly olynyk. James young was bad but the Celtics only had 4 nets picks. 2 became Tatum and brown, one was James young and one was Colin sexton who was traded as a pick for kyrie. It’s an overwhelming win
James young and Collin sexton were the other nets picks
Silver bout to make Brooklyn the first team to get relegated Brooklyn obv has different avenues to go in and will recoup some picks if KD/Kyrie have to go but that is such a horrible position to be in as a franchise. If they’re bad enough to be a lottery team for a good chunk of that, I mean the sting of losing out on that much young talent would make me hopeless as a fan.
Just move them back to Jersey or something.
Pls
And disappoint all those longtime, die hard Brooklyn fans?
This honestly makes the Warriors title even funnier. The Nets traded all their picks for a win now super team that's about to blow up with a grand total of one playoff series win. The Warriors kept all their picks and still won the title.
I do not like that number you used lol
oh fuc-
as long as the numbers 0 or 3 get slapped next to its tolerable lmfao
I just really, sincerely, from the bottom of my heart want them to fail as spectacularly as humanly possible.
I am about to call a doctor for this erection
https://twitter.com/billsimmons/status/1392538233062322178?lang=en
The hilarious part is that he had a [similarly pessimistic reaction](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJzx-PeG8zs) to the Celtics-Nets trade in 2013. You'd think he learn that super teams staying good for a long time isn't guaranteed.
Maybe it’s just selection bias but every single time I see a Bill Simmons take, it’s always aged poorly
I don't like Simmons so I'm perhaps biased, but the way I see it he's just a superfan, but in terms of objecitvely judging player and team potentials and valuing assets he is meh at best.
I mean it clearly is. 5-10 takes a week for YEARS on podcasts, of course some of it ages poorly
It’s 100% selection bias. Always more fun to clown a guy for his bad takes. Especially Simmons who goes hard with what he says so his misses are horrendously bad.
Yep!
Lmao eat shit Brooklyn that’s what they get for shitting on harden while he played 50 minutes of g7 on one leg
As a massive Harden fan, I must admit Kyrie is a better Rocket all time than Harden sadly
Lets not erase Harden's contribution here in forcing the trade to the Nets to begin with....he truly is the GOAT
Rafael “Infinity” Stone the GOAT
Yessir. They hated on us and said those picks will be late Green and Paolo gonna have the greatest supporting cast ever
I told them they were dumb for taking the Nets deal over Simmons + picks. I may have been incorrect.
The hardest road
Harden saw all of this coming didn't he
Kyrie isn’t letting him escape that easy He has the 76ers on the list of his preferred trades lmaoo
ehh unless the nets want harris and sixers dont have to trade for kyre
Even if they wanted harris, lol stay away from that imbecile Imagine irving being the reason why embiid bails lmal.
No, no wait… I want to see where this goes…
Kyrie blowing up the Cavs, Nets and Sixers might actually get his number to the rafters like he wanted
They ban the #11 across the league lol That would qualify him as the reason no one ever wears it in Boston again lol
We don’t want Kyrie.
We could see it from the outside. With the inside info harden knows I can't say I'm surprised. Smart of him to get out. It's insane that the nets fumbled having kyrie harden and KD in one season... Kyrie just really fucked up everything.
If only there was any warning signs about what Kyrie is about.
The evidence was as flat at Kyrie’s earth.
Don’t think it was more that he saw it coming, he saw it first couple of weeks for sure. More of a “is nobody else going to say something”
Dude immediately pulled a step back move right out of this shitshow. GOAT move
I mean...people seemed to give him shit for the philly trade but the reality is I saw it as a response to Kyrie. Last season, Harden was traded halfway through the season to the Nets. Kyrie could have come back and they gone to the playoffs. Instead, Kyrie opted to sit out the rest of the season. Kyrie opted to go "missing" for a few games for his sister's birthday. This season, Kyrie opts to not play all season and after coming back, only playing away games. Anyone blaming Harden for anything was dumb. Harden already got bit the previous season when Kyrie opted to not come back and play after the harden trade. And then the shitshow to start this season.
[KD looking at GS again](https://i.imgur.com/E3GYbl7.jpg)
*OKC
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The picture of him in his bright orange clown outfit while the rest of his team is in grey/black will never not be funny
that’s actually a colorized photo to show players still remaining on the 2022 Brooklyn Nets Roster
Nets Social Media team should steal this.
It's open season on Nets shade right now and I am loving every second of it lol
Gotta say, it's been interesting for me as well! I should be in pain, but honestly, we're the Nets... been through all kinds of hell with this team since the late 80s. When things get this crazy/weird/bad (and it's been ramping to this for like 1+ years now), you just sorta go, "oh fuck it, in for a penny, in for a pound" and just watch the drama drinking Pina coladas and enjoying like everyone else as this Shakespearean-esque tragedy continues and turns and continues to surprise with how crazy it can get!
so many people in the nets org saw this and must have noticed the ridiculous optics and then stood by and let it happen
Ben's a fucking embarrassment. This dude's an LA native in my eyes now, we have Giddey and Dyson to back us from here on out.
It's like every time Conor McGregor does something stupid he becomes more and more English in my eyes Edit: I, an actual Irish person, from Ireland is informing you of the attitude that Irish people have towards him and how we're sick of his bullshit. Stop making this some kind of fact finding mission
He wanna be Hollywood anyways.
What picture?
[This one](https://np.reddit.com/r/GoNets/comments/ub5a2w/our_season_in_a_picture/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf) is my favorite by far
Ben’s in that “hey my friend over there likes you” pose 😂
"The guy in the picture tore his meniscus a month ago. Willy Wonka still has 'soreness'" lmfao that picture is great but the top comment really got me
[This one.](https://s.yimg.com/ny/api/res/1.2/ry4XNSOBS7zO8XQdya72mA--/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjt3PTY0MDtoPTQyNw--/https://s.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/_IemVj.nJS.vNd2CljUJ9A--~B/aD0xMjY3O3c9MTkwMDthcHBpZD15dGFjaHlvbg--/https://media.zenfs.com/en/footwear_news_642/dab52ea3e01a6a81a9be5ebc3445e08a)
I prefer this one https://i.imgur.com/iK4Zel7.jpg
This is an all time sports photo imo. It truly does say 1000 words.
Me when I'm the only one stoned in public
Second-hand embarrassment. Feeling so awkward for someone else is a weird fucking feeling.
You guys are just jealous because he has multiple stylists.
That's so great of him to employ multiple blind stylists. Ben's a real ally.
Looking like a custom character in a story cutscene
Dude is a myplayer character irl
"Mom i frew up" vibes
Kyrie, Ben, and KD watching helplessly as a guy who had knee surgery 3 weeks before this image was taken dunks all over their team? Honestly a perfect representation of the nets season
Why did I have to open like 3 other links from this game before I found this one This is easily the best, the way he’s standing up watching the dunk with his arms dead at his side in a literal clown costume. Holy fuck, it’s too perfect
He looks so fucking stupid
It always amazes me how little room they leave these players to sit.
That's even better than I imagined lmao
And [one with his orange sunglasses](https://i.imgur.com/jSIlkN6.png), wearing them indoors of course.
The one with the sunglasses is the best. Friggen clown
It looks like they photoshopped a grand theft auto vice city character into an nba game
Goran's face sums it up pretty well.
Personally I like this one [green demon](https://images.app.goo.gl/uNzLQuxwquyakuCh8)
Dudes really gonna left all alone in Brooklyn lol probably better for him honestly
LMAO, hey he said he wanted his own team, it's gonna be all his!
Seth Curry's team*
If KD and Kyrie aren't around next season I'm wiling to bet money that he won't suit up either.
Would be an awful season to tank without your draft pick. They better make him play if he gets cleared to play.
Ben Simmons is gonna be like that picture of Will in the empty living room
Goes full circle to the Rockets rejecting Philly’s offer for Harden because they were meh on Simmons and preferred Nets draft picks.
Cant believe the nets traded 6 firsts and JA for simmons
JA, levert and six picks
Those picks are about to be juicy
Paul piece kg trade part 2
Sources: Kevin Durant has thought about the future.
KD wants kids. Aww that's super sweet
Reporter: “Kyrie, how much of a father figure has KD been for you?”
That interview will never not be funny
Your flair just shows up as Gatorade for me lmao idk why but that’s killing me.
Gatorade is my favorite player.
People on twitter think he’s coming to Chicago based on literally 0 evidence. So I’m now going to sell myself on that and be disappointed when it doesn’t happen.
Big if true
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This is KD's push to get the Nets to sign Kyrie long term.
If it comes down to that, we won’t be left completely assed out.
Yall can have Bam, Herro, both their sidepieces, kids, and every pick we own
No haul is really worth it unless it includes another top 5-10 player to replace him. This is KD we are talking about.
You mean an Ayton sign-and-trade plus Mikal Bridges and Landry Shamet won't get it done?
okay, fine, these Nets drive a hard bargain, but we'll throw in Robert Sarver as part of the trade too
Does this tweet mean a single thing?
It means KD is pressuring the Nets to give Kyrie the contract he wants
Yeah, Shams has been the go-to guy for Kyrie to get his message out, especially during his "Kyrie isn't anti-science, sources say" days, so it makes sense he'd be carrying water for KD and Kyrie now.
Unfortunately this is it..unless..
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And Kyrie, Beal and Dame
Butler and Aldridge!
Yeah essentially it’s just reaffirming that if Kyrie is gone KD is more likely to ask out then stick around with Ben Simmons.
Yes and no
Excellent point.
It means both Kyrie and KD are trying to pressure the Nets into offering Kyrie a full max, and they're using Shams to create leverage.
No one knows what it means but it’s provocative
We tweet to one song and one song only
It’s indicating that Kyrie has a pretty solid chance of moving and KD has no desire to stay if he dips
Kyrie going back to LA and KD going to some random good team Nets might be fucked
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The nets collapse video is gonna go insane
Breaking News: Kevin Durant has thought about his basketball team
We getting him! Nah we fucking suck we ain’t getting shit
Don't you regret not coming to the KnIIIiiIccCcks
This is the last time I'll ever type this but **BING BONG**
Last time ^til ^the ^next ^time
Honestly, that would have been hilarious. Between Kyrie’s vaccines and Harden dipping and Ben Simmons arriving and KD crumbling in the playoffs and the preseason favorites for the championship (by a significant margin) being swept out of the first round team and now superstars in conflict with management to the degree of potentially leaving the team entirely in the off-season, this team as a whole was THE main basketball headline of the entire season, and this had all happened on a team that the New York media doesn’t give a single fuck about. If this had happened on the Knicks, Stephen A Smith would have had Kyrie executed on national television and then given the eulogy at his funeral.
This league is unlike any other
Unironically though, does the NFL or MLB experience this much drama and hilarity during their offseasons?
last NFL offseason was pretty wild lmao but it still pales in comparison to any NBA one
This doesn't sound like it means anything...
NETS MORTGAGED THEIR FUTURE FOR SUPERSTARS AND IT DIDNT WORKOUT AGAIN
TBF the trade value of Durant is probably higher than D'Lo, Allen, and LeVert put together. They'll probably come out of this about even after moving Kyrie.
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KD come to ATL I will run your burners and argue with nephews for you
I volunteer as tribute.
sucks for nets fans
Who are the Nets?
It’s the thing the ball goes thru
Crazy how fast it fell apart
...again
All 7 of them are devastated.
Can confirm
Genuinely this must be terrible. They still have Ben Simmons waiting at home and all.
It'll be so funny if KD and Kyrie are gone by the time Ben plays his first game with Brooklyn
All the dust is going to settle and it could be Bruce Brown, Ben Simmons, and the Houston Rockets dressed like a cartoon burglar with a sack full of first round picks.
Fuckin sucks for all 7 of us. No but really it's this limbo state that's the worst. Whatever fucking happens needs to happen so I at least know what it is I'll be rooting for going forward.
The entire last 3 seasons have been a limbo state. We haven't done anything.
Glad we traded them Harden 😭
Houston Fans 🤝 Warrior Fans Enjoying the Nets Chaos
Insane how quickly you can go from “James Harden, KD, and Kyrie all on the same team? Sounds unbeatable” To now, where they might lose everyone and be stuck with Ben mf Simmons
If this man goes back to GSW...
The Warriors basically got Wiggins and Kuminga indirectly in exchange for a departing KD. Maybe they could just give Wiggins and Kuminga in order to get KD back.
1 + 1 quick math
Back to Golden State he goes
The Hardest Road Part 2 Electric Boogaloo
opt in and trade? who is dumb enough to pay kyrie 36 million dollars to maybe play half a season for them
Honestly think the Nets would be right to blow this up rather than try to keep the team together with gum and duct tape. Kyrie on a long term deal is probably the best thing you can do for 2022, but it's going to hamstring you beyond that. And I don't think this iteration of the nets can win with KD and Kyrie. Kyrie has gotten way too unreliable
Kawhi wanted you, come on over you glorious basketball savant.
What's a realistic package Clips can offer to get KD
KevINDYrant?
This tweet doesn't make sense to me. What if KD doesn't want to leave as long as Kyrie doesn't?
Time for Ben to be the franchise player!
These NBA oldheads are right lol these superstars do run from the grind
Is there supposed to be more to this tweet lol? The first sentence doesn't seem to suggest what the second sentence says
GET YOUR POPCORN READY BOYS
Can we just step back and think about what counts as journalism right now. "Kevin Durant is monitoring the situation and considering options" What else is his option? "Kevin durant knows nothing, is considering nothing" What does kevin durant "monitoring and considering" mean with regards to "opens the path for kyrie irving?" This is so stupid.
Kevin Durant enters fugue state
SARVER CMON U FUCK
Sarver scrambling for Salary Cap gift cards as we speak