Brooklyn Nets: Brooklyn Needs To Trade For Picks or Players This Off-Season

By Steve Krebs | Mar 6, 2015

Feb 27, 2015; Houston, TX, USA; Brooklyn Nets forward Joe Johnson (7) and guard Jarrett Jack (0) and guard Deron Williams (8) walk onto the court during the fourth quarter against the Houston Rockets at Toyota Center. The Rockets defeated the Nets 102-98. Mandatory Credit: Troy Taormina-USA TODAY Sports /

With a slew of problems engulfing the Brooklyn Nets organization, one situation that resides at the top is the need to either trade for draft picks or productive players that the team can build around for years to come. Truth be told, that is going to be a lot easier said than done.

In any team-sport, there are sure to be good times, bad times, and certainly everything else in between. In the case of the Nets, it’s all bad, and there is no shortage of proof to insinuate the road is only going to get even more tumultuous — I know what you are thinking, because it is pretty inevitable: fire sale!

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I am not sure many other teams want any part of the heat in the Barclays Center Kitchen, however.

The Brooklyn Nets’ attempt at a make-or-break season last year has resulted in a third option, that I feel was gravely overlooked — which was to utterly bury the team for years to come under egregiously high contracts, and trade away all draft picks for the next four seasons in the interim.

That’s right fans, it is very possible our beloved Nets will not be selecting in the draft until 2019, other than a 2017 second-round pick from the Boston Celtics.

If that was not bad enough, the players that the Nets do have as of right now are quite incapable of returning anything remotely describing solid value. At this point, the organization will have to sell extremely low, if that is even possible at all — taking on aging players with eye-popping contracts is probably not the high on the itinerary of the rest of the league.

At best, the Nets will have to take on a percentage of the remaining salaries, but if it is at the cost of somehow bringing about a slither of hope to turn things around, I am sure the Brooklyn faithful will stand behind that firmly.

Most would agree that losing a few dollars over the course of one season, and not having enough funds to sign high profile free-agents instantly, is a lot easier to fathom then continuing down the road to absolute nowhere, except behind another year of improving the current situation.

It stands to reason that Brooklyn can only get better if they are successful in moving Deron Williams, Jarrett Jack, Brook Lopez, and Joe Johnson — though, unless something miraculous happens, it might take two more seasons for a complete change.

It’s hard for fans to feel confident in the decision making process that has brought us to this point, and that can only invite the question of, “Can the Nets organization properly construct a winning team, or at the very least, a positive environment?”

Watching these bad ideas snowball into an avalanche of awful has been quite disappointing, but at least it has been consistent — now if they can only turn that consistency towards making strides to improve the team rather than demolish any hope of success, fans might actually stay for the fourth quarter.

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