Ladies and gentlemen, the Brooklyn Nets are still bad.
Shocking, I know, since you would think almost $200 million in salary and luxury taxes would fund a playoff team, not a cellar-dweller.
But the Nets are in fact expensive riffraff that call 11th place in an abject Eastern Conference their humble abode, leaving head coach Jason Kidd at his wit's end.
"I think it's getting very close to just accepting losing," Kidd said after his Nets suffered a 103-86 romping from the Indiana Pacers at the Barclays Center, according to Newsday's Roderick Boone. "We kind of get comfortable with losing, and we've got to make a stand with that, because when things get tough, do we just give in? And most of the time right now, we do."
That's an understatement.
Brooklyn is a loser of three straight and four of its last five. Hope sprung out of a previous three-game winning streak, but Brook Lopez's season-ending foot injury brought revival talks to an abrupt end.
The Nets are two games outside the East's playoff picture and 2.5 games off the Atlantic Division-leading Toronto Raptors. They rank in ...
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Jason Kidd Calls Out Brooklyn Nets for Accepting Losses
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