Harden submitted a trade request to leave the Nets last season. After the free market opened, Durant also submitted a trade request. Irving may be traded to the Nets even though he has executed the player option. Net transaction, this means that the Nets Big Three will be completely disintegrated. The Nets have also failed in the past three years.
It is worth mentioning that 9 years ago, the Nets also paid a huge price to form a lineup known as the Big Five. In the summer of 2013, there were already Deron, Lopez On the basis of and Joe Johnson and other star players, the Nets made a big deal with Celtics in exchange for Garnett and Pierce and other players, forming the so-called luxury five. Giant lineup.
Of course, the above five players are all star players, but whether they can be called giants is still debatable. Garnett and Pierce have also entered the end of their careers, and their dominance is not as good as before. But no matter what, the Nets' lineup does seem to be very competitive.
But things went counterproductive. In the end, the Nets only achieved a record of 44 wins and 38 losses, ranking only sixth in the Eastern Conference. In the playoffs, they were also easily eliminated by the Heat in the second round. The next season, the Nets only achieved 38 wins and 44 points, ranking eighth in the Eastern Conference, and were eliminated by the Hawks in the first round. Next, the Nets will become a weak team and have to rebuild.
The Nets not only failed in their gamble on the Big Five lineup, but also lost the draft picks they relied on for reconstruction, which were all traded to the Celtics. Therefore, the Nets gave away both the No. 3 pick in 2016 and the No. 1 pick in 2017. Celtics , the Celtics thus got Brown and Tatum , and obtained the cornerstone of the team, and the two of them should have been the cornerstone of the Nets. It is worth mentioning that in the playoffs this season, it was Brown and Tatum who led the Celtics to sweep the Nets.
Due to the loss of draft rights, the Nets' reconstruction progress has been very slow, but fortunately, in the summer of 2019, Durant and Irving joined the Nets, which allowed the Nets to complete their reconstruction in an instant and become the favorite to win the championship. Durant suffered a serious Achilles tendon injury and was reimbursed for the season, but the Nets are still favored by everyone.
Not only that, the Nets later traded for Harden through a big deal, forming a real Big Three combination , which was much stronger than the previous Big Five combination. But it is a pity that due to injuries and other reasons, the Nets' Big Three failed to succeed, and it was difficult to avoid the end of disintegration.
However, in Harden's deal, the Nets paid a lot of future draft picks, including first-round picks in 2024 and 2026, as well as swap picks in 2023, 2025 and 2027. If the Nets become a weak team after trading Durant and Irving, then the Nets draft pick in the Rockets' hands will be very valuable, and the Nets may repeat the same mistake and lose the draft pick again. Opportunity to rebuild.
The Nets failed to form a giant team the first time, making the Celtics the big winner. Now the Nets form a giant team again, but the result is another failure, and the Rockets are likely to be like the Celtics. has become the biggest winner of the Nets' failure to build a giant team.
