The Brooklyn Nets are the chaos engine driving the 2022 NBA offseason.
Since the 2021-22 season ended with the Golden State Warriors hoisting the trophy the Nets once hoped would be theirs, Brooklyn has been the epicenter of off-court madness. Kyrie Irving, briefly the center of sign-and-trade speculation, asked the world to call him brave after accepting a $36.5 million player option for the upcoming season. Patty Mills, the steady backup point guard who’d started 48 games last winter as the unvaccinated Irving sat, quietly opted out of his $6 million deal for 2022-23.
