February 15, 2015, the NBA Trade Deadline was looming and the Brooklyn Nets had reportedly said “yes” to a trade that would send Brook Lopez to the Oklahoma City Thunder for Reggie Jackson, Kendrick Perkins and Perry Jones III.
Of course, the trade never went through, as the Oklahoma City Thunder would back out and trade Jackson to the Detroit Pistons instead. But say that the trade went through and the Nets had those three players instead of Brook Lopez, that’s where everything would begin to change for the Brooklyn Nets and their rebuild gets a little bit different.