The Nets' failure this season is obvious to all fans. They have been experiencing turmoil throughout the season, and the players need to confront some things off the court, and this has had an impact since the season started. Before the training camp, Irving's vaccination problem had already had an impact on the team's mentality. Then the Nets have been troubled by this negative emotion for most of the season. Before Irving officially returned, Harden began to leave the team again. The Nets have become two factions inside the Nets, and Benbrey, who supports Harden, was also laid off. Then, Simmons, who has been threatening to return this season, ended up not playing in a single game. The Nets' Big Three Model is still established. The Nets' loss this season is as high as $100 million, and the reinforcement can only put the strong player on the shelves.
After experiencing such a turbulent season, many Nets fans hope that Irving and Simmons can leave, and at least one can be sent away. Although the Big Three are amazing on the court, most people have had enough of these messes off the court. You don’t know what Irving will do to you next season. For three years, from refusing to boycott the rematch, to leaving the team without authorization many times, to refusing to get vaccinated, every time Irving will express regrets after the end of the season, and then do what he wants next season. Simmons was even more weak inside and now became a deserter in the mouth of Nets fans. After he was revealed to have played Call of Duty for 23 hours in one go. Good guy, his back was sore and he couldn't play the game, but he could play the game day and night.
However, unfortunately, Irving and Simmons will not leave this offseason. Nets team reporter Shiver answered the direction of the Nets' offseason operation in the fan Q&A, among which he mentioned several points. First, Irving and Simmons will stay. Even if they trade them, the Nets will not be able to get equal returns. They will only reduce their strength, and the trading value of the two has reached the lowest value of their careers. Second, due to various problems this season, Boss Cai’s loss reached nearly 100 million US dollars, which is a terrifying number and unexpected to Boss Cai. Third, if the Nets want to improve their combat effectiveness next season, their forward shooter Joha will be put on the shelves.
In my opinion, the Nets are all helpless actions. Irving won’t say that Irving stays in the team. He is tied to Durant. As long as Durant is there, no matter what Irving does, he will not leave unless the Nets intend to knock it down and rebuild it. Simmons will not leave either. The Nets have already lost once in Harden's trade. Now Simmons' trading is not as valuable as last year's offseason. If they trade Simmons now, not only will the Nets not get any valuable returns, but they will also traumatize Simmons' heart again. In any case, the Nets can only bite the bullet and let the Big Three play for another season. In this way, the Big Three will already lock in the Nets' $116 million salary space next season.
In addition, according to a joint report by reporters Cosman and Lewis, in the season that has ended, the Nets and their home Barclays Center lost 50 million to 100 million US dollars. According to people familiar with the matter, this may be the team with the worst losses in the NBA. After buying the Nets and Barclays Center, Tsai expects the team to become a profitable company like Alibaba, but this bad season has caused Tsai to suffer serious losses. The latter paid the second highest luxury tax in the league in history this season, but they experienced more than half of Irving's games without playing, Durant missed 21 consecutive games due to injury, and Harden's departure has been reimbursed by Simmons' season.
Because of huge losses, Boss Cai fired Abamondi, CEO of Brooklyn Sports Entertainment, this season. Although the Nets set various records of tickets, attendance and sponsorship in the Abamondi era, he was still fired because of this failed season.In addition, according to additional reports, Boss Cai will not trade players easily. He knows that this will only be another strategy of failure and loss, and starting from management is a better choice. According to Shiver's disclosure, if the Nets want to improve their lineup strength, especially in terms of improving their forward defense, Joha is their most trade-worthy player, and the latter will be used to ask for the price. If it is appropriate, the Nets will start trading negotiations with Joha as the core chip.
In my opinion, Joha is also the only bargaining chip that the Nets can use as reinforcement. His salary next season will exceed $18 million, but his role will be replaced by Curry and Mills, and the combined annual salary of the two of them is not as high as Joha. To put it bluntly, neither of them has any defense. Joha’s cost-effectiveness is the lowest among the three shooters. He did not replace him last year. Now the Nets scored a lot, and Joha’s performance in the playoffs is disaster-level. The other two have rich experience, and they also have big heart moments. But two ankle surgeries are likely to reduce Joha’s market value.
