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EMERGENCY ESSAY: No, sports fans, they are not tanking

Nets social media is starting to sound like a conversation at an embalmers’ convention. It’s all about preparing the dead for burial.

“They’re tanking! they’re tanking!” goes the chorus of battered Brooklyn fans following the trades of Kevin Durant and Kyrie Irving for four good, if lesser, players and enough draft capital — five unprotected first rounders plus a swap of firsts and four seconds — to choke an NBA scouting department.

Sorry, they’re not. That’s not the plan anyway.

Other than comments from team insiders both on the record and anonymously after the Clean Sweep era ended, there’s plenty of evidence to suggest the organization wants to win, wants to make a go of it in the post-season.