The Brooklyn Nets might be giving up on Ben Simmons already

Welp, that could be it, people.

It appears to be like the Ben Simmons-Brooklyn Nets marriage is presently in difficulty and wants resuscitation. In accordance to Ian Begley of SNY, the previous Rookie of the Calendar year could be on the trade block.

“Ben Simmons’ identify came up in the talks, sources say,” Begley reported.

Because bringing in Kevin Durant and Kyrie Irving in 2019, Brooklyn has not accomplished anything right. If the target is reaching specific milestones, then they are on monitor, but not if the target is winning titles. The signings of Durant and Irving seem like 1 of the largest NBA problems of the earlier ten years. This could be worse than the preceding routine buying and selling for Paul Pierce and Kevin Garnett when they ended up past their primes.

Proprietor Joe Tsai need to be kicking himself just about every time Irving opens his mouth or Tweets incoherently, only to engage in the sufferer when the backlash comes in waves. Tsai has almost certainly seen his identify in headlines a lot more usually than he ever imagined he would following purchasing the group.

Of the moves Brooklyn has built (and there have been a good deal) due to the fact 2019, none have made the outcomes Tsai paid for. Durant sat out the initially calendar year, which was interrupted by the COVID-19 world-wide shutdown, and considering that he’s returned to the court docket, all they’ve performed is progress to the semifinal spherical of the NBA Playoffs. That’s the furthest Brooklyn’s absent, and just final season, they were swept out of the initially round.

The Ben Simmons trade in February for the participant (James Harden) they’d traded for a person 12 months previously was meant to rejuvenate this roster and increase a wrinkle the workforce was missing. Effectively, Simmons ultimately produced his debut as a Net this season, and that wrinkle, no matter what it is intended to be, is nevertheless missing. Not only is that wrinkle lacking, but so is Simmons. He played in the team’s initial 6 online games to open the year but has been inactive in excess of the previous four with a knee injury.

In less than two many years, the Nets have experienced two iterations of a large 3, and neither has gotten them near to a championship. Evidently, the final pair of several years was the fault of former head mentor Steve Nash, who was fired by the workforce previous week. Definitely, it is Nash’s fault that Kyrie is very little far more than an up to date version of the And 1 mixtape tour, and KD could not lead a path of ants to sugar.

NBA head coaches are usually an quick scapegoat for struggling groups, as it is normally harder to substitute players, especially stars. Nash was in around his head from the jump and absolutely need to have some blame positioned on his shoulders. He was not prepared for a higher-profile NBA position like Brooklyn’s. The former back again-to-again league MVP would’ve been significantly far better served to begin in a put like Oklahoma Metropolis or Orlando, in which there is zero expectation. Alternatively, Nash was permitted to scurry up the ladder mainly because of associations with Durant and typical supervisor Sean Marks, eventually biting off far additional than his jaws could chew adequately. And the 1st identify we listen to as Nash’s substitute is suspended Boston Celtics head mentor, Ime Udoka. So, Brooklyn’s respond to to correcting a mess is by including to it.

As significantly as it would damage Tsai to admit, it is time to blow this workforce up and start more than again. Irving is a free of charge agent at the stop of the season, and there’s no way Tsai is supplying him a new very long-expression offer. Durant has a number of years remaining on his deal, but if Irving isn’t re-signed, he’s not heading to be delighted, and he hasn’t proven the capacity to lead this franchise proficiently, so you could as nicely grant him his want and ship him out. The identical goes for Simmons, who skipped all final year and is previously on the hurt list once more immediately after participating in just six games. The Nets still absence in-depth and frontcourt generation, between other locations. The jap convention is stacked once more with minimal space for mistake.

In some cases you’ve obtained to know when to say when. It’s tap out time for Joe Tsai and the Nets.