Whenever there’s a funeral scene in a movie, it’s raining just about every time. It’s almost as if directors don’t trust their audience to understand on their own that the scene is supposed to be somber. The first John Wick (2014), Logan (2017), and The Amazing Spiderman (2012) immediately come to mind for me.
Well, Mother Nature was in on that cliché tonight.
While rain slammed into the Barclays Center from multiple angles this evening, we laid the 2023-24 Brooklyn Nets to rest. With the Atlanta Hawks taking down the Detroit Pistons, they officially eliminated Brooklyn from the Play-In tournament — and consequentially the playoffs.