Why The Brooklyn Nets Should Consider A Fire Sale
At this point in the season, it is pretty safe to say that the Brooklyn Nets won’t be competing for a championship. The Nets have shown a lot of promise to recruit a lot of talent to Brooklyn, even if that means that they are going to pay a lot more in luxury tax and payroll to do it.
The problem is that Brooklyn can’t deliver where it truly matters: on the floor. When Paul Pierce, Kevin Garnett, Joe Johnson and Deron Williams were brought to Brooklyn, the point of the team was to win a championship much like the Boston Celtics and the Miami Heat were able to do.
According to a report by ESPN, Brooklyn paid $101,263,102 for their total payroll in the 2013-14 season. That was just their payroll. The luxury tax that they paid for that was in excess of $83 million. It is now time for the Brooklyn Nets to give up the championship project and start building for the future.
After losing Williams indefinitely to a broken rib, and upon hearing rumors of Mikhail Prokhorov keeping his ear out for the highest bidder, the team may be forced to look to the future anyways.
This all seems headed in one inevitable direction: Mikhail Prokhorov is eventually selling the Nets. Just seems like a matter of time now.
— Tim Bontemps (@TimBontemps) January 15, 2015
There is further evidence that the Nets should build for the future.
Next: Payroll for 2014-15