After losing to the Milwaukee Bucks, the eventual NBA champions, in the Eastern Conference Semifinals last season, the Brooklyn Nets enter the 2021-22 season with championship aspirations once again, but they will be starting things without one of their superstars.
Seven-time All-Star point guard Kyrie Irving will be sitting out practices and games for the foreseeable future because he is unvaccinated.
New York City mandates require that all athletes playing in an indoor arena be vaccinated, but the same rules do not apply to visiting team’s players, as they are eligible to play with no mandates hovering over them.
Irving’s decision not to get vaccinated definitely impacts this Nets’ team, but all is definitely not lost for them. Kevin Durant and James Harden, two former league-MVPs, still lead this team into battle and Brooklyn also upgraded their supporting cast this offseason.
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Veterans Patty Mills, Paul Millsap, LaMarcus Aldridge, and Blake Griffin bring plenty of years of championship/All-Star experience to this roster, giving the Nets a really strong chance to win the Eastern Conference.
Even though they are paying a lot of money to have the team they do, the Nets may not be done making roster moves, even with the new season set to begin on Tuesday!
Kyrie Irving being out opens the door for others on this roster to step up, but it could also force the Nets to look at possibly making a trade to add a little bit more talent.
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The center position has always been a weak spot of Brooklyn and with no real true center on this roster, they could realistically look at a player like Myles Turner as being the final piece to their championship puzzle.
Turner is one of the best defensive players in the entire NBA, as he has led the league in blocks per game in two of the last three seasons, and there always seem to be rumors about his potential departure from Indiana. Will the Pacers look to move Myles Turner at some point during the 2021-22 season?
Let’s take a look at a hypothetical trade proposal put together by Bleacher Report’s Zach Buckley that would result in Myles Turner getting traded to the Brooklyn Nets.
