Sean Marks and Jacque Vaughn should be fired.

[NetsJets]

Not MDB

[Netaman]

knicks again non-competitive against heat when jimmy butler plays. tough first series for any new knix fans. fire thibs?

[GTR11]

knicks again non-competitive against heat when jimmy butler plays. tough first series for any new knix fans. fire thibs?

I'm waiting for them to get bounced first, than go check to see what's up. I don't even have to see their board to know that they've been talking about CHAMPIONSHIP

Depending on how Marks going to construct this team during off-season, I can guarantee they'll be a play in team next year. It already happened just few years back. Just before play in was added. That's how Bing Bong turned into Ping Pong. Ice Trae committed a murder

[Eatgreenz]

smfh cant believe bro really went to be a knicks fan. They aint doing nothing. They got money invested in that ill never pass randle. Brunson can only get you so far. The right moves we will be better than them next season and continue the tradition of being better than them like we have always been.

[JKiddy]

The Nets will be better than the Knicks in 2025. He is just trying to get attention. Let him be. He will come back.

If you are a parent and your child acts out and says they will run away and they leave to go to their friends for a day and night. They come back and apologize come the next day. For him, that day and a night is this coming year.

The OGs and real fans don't leave.

[NetsWorld]

The Nets will be better than the Knicks in 2025. He is just trying to get attention. Let him be. He will come back.

If you are a parent and your child acts out and says they will run away and they leave to go to their friends for a day and night. They come back and apologize come the next day. For him, that day and a night is this coming year.

The OGs and real fans don't leave.

2025? I personally think by next year, Marks is poised to make moves. He is waiting for another star to ask out, that's all it is. Windy has reported eyes are on Milwaukee. And he has a very reputable track record. Who knows what happens with Giannis. What if Nets get Luka/Lillard? What if we also get JB/Giannis to go along with that.

[gigantes]

If anyone here is putting down MDB for having done with the Nets, then to me, you've noticed nothing, haven't learned a damn thing, and should be DEEPLY ashamed of yourselves.

To me, MDB has been one of the smartest Nets fans of all, particularly good at noticing issues, pointing out realities, marking areas of concern. All while being a dedicated Nets fan for... what, it's like a million or something years at this point, no?

Don't you DARE ever put down MDB, you miserable wankers.
THAT guy was the REAL DEAL.

Now sit up and stand up, you pitiful bag of wankers.

[CalamityX12]

Bring back MDB!!!!

[Netaman]

Fire Monty Williams, James Jones, and Matt Ishbia. Terrible trade and inexcusable that they only won 1 round with KD.

Didn't they know they needed to give him whatever cocktail stops cp3 from aging? It's like they just accept him as a 34 year old without any adjustments whatsoever. Textbook satisfaction with mediocrity.

[KnixtapeH20]

Gettn spicy in here

[gigantes]

Gettn spicy in here

Haha, I reckon we're mainly just hurt & cheesed-off that dude left us, each expressing it as they will.

He'll bring the fire though, KnixtapeH20, he'll bring the fire.

[Paradise]

Let’s revisit this now because although, Marks missed on a lot of opportunities. The Kyrie/KD relationship has now been exposed.

Let’s not let the “It was obviously way more fun with Harden” comment slide under the rug.

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[TheNetsFan]

Bring him back on the MLE.

[Netaman]

damn. shots fired. seems pretty clear by omission everything traces back to the source. the call was coming from inside the house.

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[TheNetsFan]

damn. shots fired. seems pretty clear by omission everything traces back to the source. the call was coming from inside the house.

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He knows who it was.

[GTR11]

damn. shots fired. seems pretty clear by omission everything traces back to the source. the call was coming from inside the house.

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He knows who it was.

Not surprised to these news at all. After Johnson got dumped just before the playoffs, I knew KD had more say than most here thought. I actually to my fault went at Kyrie and Tsai more than I should have. KD's previous incidents in GSW were lurking, but I wanted to see something obvious. Kyrie gave us more than enough obvious.

Look at these KD, Kyrie, Poole type players that be having issues with teammates and don't get fooled ever again. Stay away from them no matter how tempting it is. Hot takes never lead to good things, only accumulate mistakes and drop you back for years.

[ChuckS]

Let’s revisit this now because although, Marks missed on a lot of opportunities. The Kyrie/KD relationship has now been exposed.

Let’s not let the “It was obviously way more fun with Harden” comment slide under the rug.

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I've always believed that the biggest mistake fans have made has been tarring KD with a Kyrie brush because they were (are?) friends. With the exception of both being great talents, they are vastly different players, people, and thinkers. It should be clear what one gave, and one didn't, to the Nets in their time here.

But, to the point at hand, I think that this is much ado about nothing. Brown is certainly entitled to his opinion and although it was implied, without elaboration, it seems plausible that Marks would have weighed the opinion of Durant (but I doubt Kyrie) in the decision to not match the offer in free agency. Where I disagree with many is that he would blindly do what he didn't agree with, or thought might be detrimental to the team. And it makes sense that a young player would also be more enamored with the night life for which Harden is famous.

I'll admit I've wanted a Siakam, or Grant, or Turner, or anyone with size and skills, because I've believed that was and is our biggest problem and most needed next step. (Well, now we need another scoring threat also.) Let's face it. We stupidly cut Johnson before the Boston series, and pretended Bruce was a power forward. It seems to have come down to Royce and Bruce during free agency. We decided on the 6'6" O'Neale at 230 lbs. over the 6'4" Brown at 202 lbs. The first gives us 2 threes at 39% vs 1 at 36%, and 5 rebounds to 4. I do not think that was stupid, particularly since, at the time, we expected to have the 6'10", 240 lb Simmons who could do everything else and more than Bruce.

So yes, it is logical to assume that Marks consulted KD. I just do not believe that either was basketball ignorant.

[Netaman]

I think the reality with KD and Kyrie is this:

they had a friendship that was a big part of them coming here,
they were both searching for something they hadnt found in the nba yet despite winning rings,
for different reasons they didn't find that home here and may never find it anywhere because their problems are in the mirror.

kyrie is totally selfish and unprofessional. so his issues are very different than kds.

kds issues are more related to bad judgement (and the biggest example of that in this case was choosing kyrie as a partner).

with how well kd played as a net, and the fact that he extended with 0 drama, it's hard for me to kill him even though his bad judgement cost him at least 1 ring. when the time came they got a very good deal for him and ended up better off. but his preferences toward kyrie, nash, playing excessive minutes, and lack of being able to keep the room together are negatives. if all he really wanted to do was hoop he should have chosen a wing man who was like that instead of Kyrie. and he would have won rings here.

but hey, we had fun and cashed him in high. on to the next era.

[gigantes]

I think the reality with KD and Kyrie is this:

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Really nice summation IMO.

I'd just like to add that before they ever came to the Nets, there was powerful evidence that KD, KI & Harden all had a history of bailing on teammates and/or bailing on contending teams, and pretty clearly did not view titles & success as the most important thing.

That's fine if you like; the problem is that Marks was allegedly trying to build a legit contender.

TBF, he was also placed in an almost impossible position by many years of Mikael Prokhorov's reckless meddling. I could even imagine Marks breathing a huge sigh of relief when KD&KI became available for almost nothing. It seemed to satisfy his style of low-cost, high-potential moves, while getting Prokhy off his back for awhile.

[vincecarter4pres]

So apparently the Heat offered Herro and multiple picks for Kyrie before he was traded to Dallas per Shams.

Don’t know how to feel about that until the pick protections and exactly which picks they were, are revealed.

That 2029 Dallas pick is honestly a great lottery ticket, but this feels like Marks overrating good somewhat older vets over draft capital and a good young player again, and/or Tsai and KD forcing his hand.

Herro is good, not great, but he’s an efficient 20/5/4 guy on a contender who isn’t necessarily even a finished product, locked up for years.

Add in multiple picks depending on protections and this is a head scratcher for sure.

Definitely feels like rich guy Tsai egomaniacal bravado again, not wanting to send Kyrie to his 2nd choice team, in conference.

Some of these doofus’s cannot stay out of their own way and let the people they hire to make basketball decisions do their job properly smh…