When the Brooklyn Nets were swept out of the first round of the playoffs by the Boston Celtics, it completed one of the most stunning collapses in sports history. That’s neither hate no hyperbole speaking. It’s truth. It’s one thing to be the 2021 Nets, a title favorite who lost in the second round — that’s disappointing, but not unheard of. The 2022 Nets entered the season as the prohibitive favorite, entered the playoffs with Kevin Durant and Kyrie Irving both playing and Ben Simmons available any minute now, and did not win one. Single. Flipping. Game.
There is another team ‘round these parts that didn’t win a playoff game this year.