With Brook Lopez out for the season following the third broken foot of his injury-plagued NBA career, the Brooklyn Nets are in big trouble—bigger trouble than they've ever experienced during a horrific beginning to the 2013-14 season.
As reported by the New York Daily News' Stefan Bondy, the All-Star center fractured the fifth metatarsal in his right foot during the overtime loss to the Philadelphia 76ers, and sources reveal that he'll miss the rest of the year.
All of a sudden, the Nets are left scrambling. They were already trying to figure out how to win games with Lopez holding down the fort at center, and now the process gets even more difficult—hopeless, even.
Sam Amick, calling the team the Brooklyn Nyets in his USA Today article, claims, "There's no way back from this series of surreal and unfortunate events—no matter how much Russian owner Mikhail Prokhorov spends."
He's right.
The short-term impact and long-term blows of this injury are both quite problematic.
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What’s Next for Brooklyn Nets After Brook Lopez Injury?
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