Brooklyn Nets: Assessing the core following the Kyrie Irving injury

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Of the five five-man units that sport a positive net rating, one man features in four of them and he is a free agent to be this summer. Harris is 28 and looking at potentially the only big contract of his career so keeping him in the fold will likely not be easy in a market limited with star power, but he should be their top priority.

Spacing is essential for any modern contender and Harris has shot over 40 percent from 3-point range the last three years. He is off his league-leading mark of 47.4 percent from last year but some of that can be attributed to worse looks with all of the other guards in and out of the rotation. Stability and surrounding star power will benefit the former Virginia Cavalier as less attention on him will lead to wide-open looks.

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Players with similar stats and role have signed for contracts between $10 million and $20 million average annual value, so keeping him will prove costly for the Brooklyn Nets. Getting him on the lower end of that, similar to the deal the Bulls locked in Tomas Satoransky with, could prove essential to building a championship core around their stars.

That being said, any deal like that could lead to the trade of Dinwiddie or LeVert as a means to keep the books flexible.

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