After Kyrie Irving, Nic Claxton is the free agent the Nets most need to return. He was their starting 5 at the end of the season and into the first round. And except for his miserable free throw shooting, particularly that 1-of-11 showing in Game 4, he was more than serviceable in that role. Moreover, he’s only 23 and a long-term asset.
But Bleacher Report’s Dan Favale, in assessing the 10 players most in need of a change of scenery, wrote this weekend about how Claxton needs to be “rescued” from Brooklyn, arguing that the Nets will never develop him to his full potential.