From the outside looking in, the 2013-14 Brooklyn Nets were a cataclysmic disaster—$190 million set ablaze on aging veterans who never fit together and resulted in a second-round exit in the postseason.
It turns out it was even worse on the inside.
Speaking with Jackie MacMullan of ESPNBoston.com, Washington Wizards forward Paul Pierce spoke on his one-season experience in Brooklyn, criticizing the laissez-faire attitude of the team's veterans:
It was a tough situation (in Brooklyn) last year. Horrible, really.
It was just the guys' attitudes there. It wasn't like we were surrounded by a bunch of young guys. They were vets who didn't want to play and didn't want to practice. I was looking around saying, 'What's this?' Kevin (Garnett) and I had to pick them up every day in practice.
Pierce arrived alongside Kevin Garnett and Jason Terry in a blockbuster deal that sent three unprotected first-round picks (2014, 2016 and 2018) to Boston in exchange for the title-winning veterans. Expected to compete for an NBA championship, the Nets were a massive ...
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