Good day, NBA fans. The 2023 NBA trade deadline is here, and it’s madness.
After the Kyrie Irving trade shook up the league, the Brooklyn Nets traded Kevin Durant to the Phoenix Suns early Thursday morning.
The Suns are now serious contenders again, but this is more about the Nets. Despite the fact that they have a better-than-you-think group left, the truth is they once had KD, Irving and James Harden.
Who are they left with from that superteam that so deeply underachieved? It’s … Ben Simmons.
So of course, as usual, Twitter was filled with jokes about Simmons, this time about him being left on this team:
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