If the mods disagree and wish to remove this thread, understood, otherwise we have a new season thread.
That said, I'll get it started by saying Kyrie, THE CANCER, the most toxic Net in franchise history, the creep who did everything humanly possible to BLOW UP a championship roster, AND SUCCEEDED, can take his "I never requested a trade - I want to play in Brooklyn, with or without KD" declaration and shove it where the sun never shines.
Nobody wants his THIEVING ASS here without KD, just like the rest of the league has no interest in his TOXIC ASS.
But we may be stuck with him for three reasons: What other team wants him, would be dumb enough to give him a max extension (or anything close), and would give the Nets ANYTHING of real value for a proven THIEF who steals your money then tells you and your fanbase that you can all GO TO HELL if he doesn't feel like playing, which is OFTEN and sometimes for the most frivolous reasons, like some cousins birthday party or whatever the F he views as more important than basketball, which is pretty close to damn near everything!
So indeed we may be stuck with this CANCER for 22/23 and he'll probably prioritize basketball for the first time since the day he put on a Brooklyn Nets uniform, but ONLY because it's in his own financial interest to see if he can fool another team and make one last score (HEIST) before he ends a career he couldn't care less about, aside from the money.
As for KD, I'm only granting his wish to be traded if another team steps up and BLOWS US AWAY with an offer, otherwise he can play for the Nets or sit home and play for nobody, whichever he prefers, but there's NO WAY IN HELL he's going anywhere for anything less than TOP DOLLAR, meaning every last ounce of value he is worth -- then a little bit more!
Hey, I figured if I'm gonna get this 2022/23 Nets thread started, I might as well get it started with a bang.
BTW Kyrie, the toxic SOB, still hasn't apologized to the Nets and Nets fans for all the damage he has done. He's still defiant about it, still thinks he did nothing wrong, still believes he's BEEN WRONGED, like the malignant narcissist that he is.
Make no mistake about it, what Kyrie did to this team was so reprehensible that he is more than worthy of the title: "Most toxic Net in franchise history", because THIS WAS a championship team under ideal circumstances. That said, ONE MAN, one selfish, self-centered, malignant narcissist decided he was going to make this situation anything but "ideal" if it personally inconvenienced him in any way, as in actually expecting him to show up and play whenever he was less than 100% enthusiastic about the idea, which was at least 50% of the time ... and all the proceeding drama, starting with James Harden wanting OUT and now KD also requesting a trade, with ZERO CHAMPIONSHIPS to show for it, is all the result of this ONE MAN. So don't think for one second I am overstating it when I call him a cancer and the most toxic Net ever.
