Sports Illustrated’s Ben Golliver isn’t buying much of this hope and hype being peddled by other reporters at ESPN, The Vertical, WFAN, New York Post, etc., etc. He likes what Sean Marks et al are doing, but in listing the seven most “hopeless” franchises, he puts Brooklyn at the bottom.
The Nets, he writes, are “Utterly, Savagely Hopeless.” That puts them below the Knicks, who are merely “hopeless” and the Kings who are “Utterly, Disorientingly Hopeless.”
How very Dante Alighieri of him.
Golliver’s argument is hardly unique. Expect more stories about the Nets lack of first round picks as the Draft Lottery gets closer.