NEW YORK — There’s something funny about the term “rock bottom:” It implies the current situation cannot possibly get worse.
Yet the Nets have crashed through one mantle of molten rock after another as they’ve spiraled down the Eastern Conference standings, further and further from their championship dreams every 48-hour news cycle.
Kyrie Irving refused to get vaccinated, Joe Harris (ankle) got hurt, Kevin Durant (MCL sprain) got hurt, and now it appears James Harden could be on the way to Philadelphia after all.