Most irrelevant they’ve ever been? Are you old enough to remember the Nets with no draft picks and eating the contracts of Paul Pierce and Kevin Garnett?

That Brooklyn team was so fun. Still the most fun I’ve had watching nba in the last 10 years.

Injuries fucking suck.

KD is maybe the most delusional professional athlete of our generation

If they were healthy in 2021, I think they would have won 1 championship easily.

As for the “he said she said” I remember the first time. It was Stephen A. Smith saying he wanted to go to the Lakers, KD said that was BS, and everyone was pretty much on KDs side.

Now I wonder if he actually did tell Stephen A. something. Probably not, but still. Lol.

I think winning championships was secondary to the fact that the Nets could offer supermax to both him and Kyrie

Most irrelevant they ever been? They threatened to break the worst record ever in the NBA at one point before the big 3 and before the Atkinson Nets emerged. They’re bad, but not threatening to be in single digit wins category bad.

Why is it over the last 48 hours all of these 5 year old KD articles and podcasts are being resurfaced? I hate the offseason lmao

This is such a nothing headline especially all these years later, any star player going to a new team’s goal should be to threepeat

Jackie Mac was washed atp in her sports writing career 

Ah Jackie Mac. And then she told a story about Larry Bird right, while simply calling him ‘Larry’ the whole time?

The Big 3 in Brooklyn only lost one playoff game together. It was to Boston and Tatum scored 50.

That series Brooklyn spanked Boston 4-1. Zach Lowe recounted a rival executive tell him no-one is gonna beat the Nets for years. The only way this ends for them is if it blows up in their faces.

The Nets had a win % of .800 or better when the Big 3 played together and that includes the early game losses when they were still figuring out how to share the ball.

I think KD is correct the Nets would easily have won 3 championships in a row. Every ring chasing veteran wanted to come to Brooklyn. The Nets did have and would have had their pick of them.

How did the Nets not win a title that first year. Let me remind you.

Start of the season Spencer Dinwiddie ACL tear season ending injury. A disaster as he then can’t be used in the Houston trade for Harden. Nets have to either put another first round pick in the trade or Jarrett Allen.

LaMarcus Aldridge is given faulty medical advice mid season and immediately retires.

30 seconds into the Bucks series James Harden severely damages his hamstring and misses most of the rest of the series only returning to play poorly and on one leg.

Game 1 Nets beat Bucks.
Game 2 Nets were 49 points up against the Bucks but win the game by 39 points! Up 49 points in a playoff game!!!! I thought coach Bud might get fired before game 3.

Game 3 Bucks win a close game. Bruce Brown misses key shots at the end.
Game 4 Kyrie dunks and Giannis tangles with him as Ky lands. Kyrie injures his ankle as he lands on Giannis and his season is over. Every NBA player knows you allow the dunker to land safely.

Giannis known for his lack of player safety knew the only way to win the series was to cause an injury to a key Nets player.

LMA would have been really useful in that Bucks series against Giannis.

PJ Tucker was fouling KD about 9 times per game and eventually would get called and foul out in the fading seconds of the game.

KD loved the competition and the tough defending but PJ Tucker was not getting officiated correctly. He was being give 9 lives every game.

The following season with Covid and Harden loses his patience with Kyrie’s selfish contrarianism and works out a back channel trade to the Sixers.

Kyrie threatens to burn the Nets franchise to the ground. Nets trade Ky to Dallas.

KD demands to be traded to the Suns and the Nets get a mega haul for him.

The end of the Big 3.

KD signed a max extension with the Nets fully guaranteed.

Ky and Harden turned down max extensions from the Nets in order to wait 12 months to sign even more ga gargantuan contracts. Neither player is ever offered anything close to those contracts again.

Harden has taken shorter contracts for less money from Philly, Clippers and now likely the Cavs. Overall Harden has lost out on nearly $100 million in career earnings by turning down the Nets max contract and forcing his way to the Sixers and got betrayed by the GM that helped make him a superstar.

Kyrie has suffered injuries and lost out on at least $75 million if not substantially more in career earnings since turning down Brooklyn’s max contract.

The lesson is sign for the guaranteed max contract and force a trade later. Get the money first.

Everything that could go wrong for Brooklyn did go wrong.

Every team suffers injuries along the way no other championship contender has ever suffered the injury crisis that bedevilled Brooklyn that season.

It was just bad luck and Giannis injuring Kyrie also.

But for those games the Big 3 played together no-one was beating them. The games were usually over by the end of the third quarter with the Nets having such huge leads.

That successful Boston Celtics team might never happen but Tatum and Brown got a taste of the Big 3.

It is entirely likely and believable that the Nets would have threepeated - KD, Kyrie and James Harden played unstoppable and unbeatable basketball when they were on the court. However, they played less than 20 games together.

KD, Kyrie, and James Harden, all shamelessly on one team, with zero success lmfao.

Justice prevails

Lost because Kyrie was a bitch and didnt vaccinate.

Never forget the antivax cowards!

Yo KD don’t you regret not coming to the kniiiiiicccckkkkks

Lolll man we just catching strays from here on out.

I’m still astonished Tatum took a game off them with Fournier and Tristan Thompson

I truly hate having Kevin Durant on my Rockets.  As far as random hall of famers that I hated that stopped for a cup of coffee on the Rockets the difference between “before joining” and “after joining” opinion, KD might be the worst. 

I hated CP3 but after he joined it was clear to me how excellent he was at everything. Game 5 vs Jazz 2018 is as good as a PG can play. 

Dwight Howard - hated him thought he was talentless. Turns out he was pretty good just really fuckin stupid. 

Bonzi wells - trash before, trash after 

Kevin Martin - realized he was a certified bucket 

Kevin Durant - holy christ, never has someone with as much recognition and praise done absolutely nothing to improve his teammates in any way whatsoever. Everything he does is so predictable so that even when it works out, it’s nothing that warps the defense. All you do is double him at half court and wait for him to turn into playoff embiid/Ray Charles, 0 ability to see the double coming, throw it into the 4th row (if we’re lucky! Probably more likely that it’s a live ball turnover and he trots back on defense like a depressed emu). 

I remember in 2019 playoffs when KD went down and the warriors played the rockets without KD. Holy christ were they so much scarier running Draymond pnr with Steph than doing the ol “ok gotta do the feed me Seymour routine so KD doesn’t start pms-ing, give this dude the ball for his state sanctioned post fade iso on PJ tucker I guess.” Please get this oaf off my team. Literally just give him the John Wall treatment. Also how do you have a sponsorship deal with Cerave and still have insane acne scarring at like 45 years old. Actually gobsmacked at that. 

tbh if the big 3 had found a way to stay together they probably get at least 1. that team was absolutely nuts and has a strong argument for being the best team we’ve seen so far in this decade

This is one of the biggest “what if” teams to me.

Three annoying highly skilled malcontent generational players playing together.

I think they could’ve won more than one. But sometimes what looks good on paper doesn’t define the final product.

Dumbest team ever, right around his trade request, Brooklyn had gone 18-2 including 12 in a row.

most irrelevant? brook lopez amazingly had to go through 12 and 20 win seasons with the nets when they broke off the kidd and garnett/pierce eras. funny he ended up winning a championship with the bucks.  hard work pays off

Not 1… not 2… but 3 championship rumors!

“KD;s heroic playoff run”???

Dude who cares

It sounds crazy, but KD’s last conference finals appearance was the one where the Rockets missed 27 straight threes in Game 7. He missed the 2019 WCF with injury. Since leaving the Warriors, he has only won two playoff series.

KD and genuine aren’t something you find together often.

random stat… 21 players passed through the ¹⁶⁄₁₇ nets squad.  8 of 21 players didnt play another minute in the nba after the season ended

He found out that driving the bus is much much harder than just riding the bus.

Excuse me? Put the proper respect on the brooklyn nets super team of: Harden, Kyrie, and KD!

KD DON’T YOU REGRET NOT COMING TO THE KNICKS???

Probably one too many difficult personalities. Harden was the engine of this team and really took a step back to facilitate and let the elite scorers focus on scoring.

We can make fun of KD for this, but yea they could have multiple ships if they had hired a better coach for the team makeup. They needed a Phil Jackson in his prime coach. Someone who could manipulate these egos.

But instead he took another hard path to PHX instead. I mean the fanbase, the organization never been a winning organization when he was in the league. Nobody liked Pheonix. So it was like, it felt like they were still like underdog because he was looking at it as the totality of the franchise, not looking at what happened the last few year where they had been to the finals.

Yeah sure and he came to the warriors because they were an unfortunate franchise that needed to be resurrected by a selfless and benevolent man like Kevin

Burner account GOAT: Not 1, Not 2…3 yup 3

He won’t win another one until he finally realizes that he’s a bus rider