The start of the new NBA season is only a month away, and the Brooklyn Nets enter the year with championship-or-bust expectations – particularly after a stellar offseason period that saw a loaded roster become even more imposing.
ESPN released projected regular-season records for every team in the league this week, and the Nets earned top marks from ESPN’s prognosticators. ESPN projected the Nets to have the best record in the NBA at 58-24, finishing as the No. 1 seed in the Eastern Conference, one game ahead of the defending champion Milwaukee Bucks.
Via ESPN:
“While the Bucks are the defending champions, it is the team they defeated in the second round of the Eastern Conference playoffs, the Nets, that is seen as the favorites to lift the Larry O’Brien Trophy in 2022. The combination of Kevin Durant, James Harden and Kyrie Irving plus a retooled supporting cast will be difficult to overcome.”
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