Grading the Brooklyn Nets Offseason
The Brooklyn Nets have made the playoffs for three consecutive seasons, but ultimately they have nothing to show for it. The Nets have made a number of costly, short-term moves in recent years in an attempt to spark a deeper playoff run, but have ultimately failed.
In the 2015 offseason the Nets have been pretty active, and the team was forced to move some valuable players while cutting costs to avoid paying the dreaded repeater tax. With the Nets season starting today, here’s a closer look at some of our biggest offseason moves.
From the archive. Dated 28 October 2015. Notes like this one were the day-to-day of the old site: a signing, an injury, a line out of a press conference, posted as it came in. The length is part of the record, so it stays.
It sits on Opinion, which holds 70 pieces in all. The desk is the right place to read around a note this short: it brings the days either side of it within reach, and the longer pieces on the same subject alongside.
Season: 2015-16. That matters more than it looks on a note this short, because the roster, the contracts and the injuries it assumes as background all belong to that year and to no other.
A short page is not a broken page. This one is here because the link to it is here, and because a reader who followed that link is owed what was at the other end of it rather than an apology and a front page.