How will Nets deal with the ‘Big Two’ in free agency?

Photo by Nathaniel S. Butler/NBAE via Getty ImagesWe are still eight months away from free agency. A lot can happen between now and then, between the Nets and their two big free agents this summer: James Harden and Kyrie Irving.

But John Hollinger of The Athletic gives it a shot and offers a none-too-optimistic look at the Nets predictament. Harden and Irving are both eligible for extensions, big ones that will almost certainly effect the franchise’s future.

Here’s the veteran of the New York Sun, ESPN, the Grizzlies front office and now The Athletic sees the situation and the Nets choices, some of it obvious, some of it not.

Kyrie Irving, PG, Nets (player option): While Kyrie Irving’s…