Imagine an already playoff team adding a 6-time All-Star and NBA champion point guard as well as a 10-time All-Star, four-time NBA scoring champion, and two-time NBA Finals MVP. This is exactly who the Brooklyn Nets have returning from injury this upcoming season between Kevin Durant and Kyrie Irving— making them a legit contender to win the 2021 NBA Finals.

After firing head coach Kenny Atkinson late in the year last season, the Nets hired Hall-of-Fame point guard, Steve Nash, to be their next head coach. After retiring from the league in 2015, Steve Nash became a player development consultant for the Golden State Warriors and while he was with the team, the Warriors produced a record-breaking 73–9 season. 

Nash flirted with the idea of becoming a coach in the NBA and after the Nets reached out to him this offseason, decided to take his first head coaching job with a team that has the potential to win it all. Steve Nash is no stranger to success and with the players and other coaches on his staff, the Brooklyn Nets have one of the best overall organizations in the league heading into the 2020-21 NBA season. 

Both Jacque Vaughn and Mike D’Antoni are assistant coaches on this coaching staff and bring plenty of high-level coaching experience with them, which will be very useful to Nash in his first year as an NBA head coach. Not to mention, the roster on this team not only has some of the best players in the NBA, but is one of the deepest teams in the league.

Caris LeVert and Spencer Dinwiddie were two excellent players last season and stepped up for the Nets with both KD and Kyrie out. This season, with those four players as the primary scorers for the Nets, along with role players such as Joe Harris, Landry Shamet, Jarrett Allen and DeAndre Jordan, the Brooklyn Nets have a legit chance to win their franchise’s first NBA Championship.

With all of that being said, here are four bold predictions for the Brooklyn Nets heading into the 2020-21 NBA season.