With Kevin Durant, Kyrie Irving and James Harden, the Brooklyn Nets had expectations of being the last team standing.
Instead, they were the first team sent packing.
Irving wasn’t around to start the season. Harden was long gone before the end of it. And after their flop culminated in a first-round sweep by the Boston Celtics, the Nets acknowledged that all their distractions off the court kept them from becoming a great team on it.
“We had our expectations. Everybody had expectations for us,” Durant said. “A lot of stuff happened throughout the season that derailed us, but I’m proud of how we just kept fighting and kept keeping
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