The Brooklyn Nets played their first game in over a week against the Toronto Raptors on Thursday. The All-Star break preceded a stretch of “28 games in 55 days,” which has become a mantra for the East’s 11-seed before the stretch run. The Nets took the opportunity to rest to the extreme, not sending a single representative to Indiana for All-Star festivities. Not in the game, nor any individual contests, nothing.
And they still had the busiest break of any team. Mikal Bridges and his interesting, I suppose, podcast spot hardly made a dent, considering the Nets then fired Head Coach Jacque Vaughn.