NBA teams are a lot like human beings. Generally speaking, they’d prefer to avoid problems.
On the other hand, problems, you’ve probably learned by now, are unavoidable. Just ask the Brooklyn Nets. As it stands, they’ve got a whole lot of them.
Kevin Durant has issued a trade request. Meanwhile, Kyrie Irving remains one of the least reliable stars in the NBA. All told, this team went from widely viewed as a title favorite to a powderkeg waiting to explode between the summers of 2020-21 and 2021-22.
Meanwhile, the Minnesota Timberwolves may have a problem of their own in D’Angelo Russell. Granted, it’s a smaller one.
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Still, his performance in the 2021-22 postseason left so much to be desired that the Wolves are allegedly shopping him.
Sometimes, the closest you can come to solving a problem is to trade it for someone else’s. Could the Nets and Timberwolves follow that logic this summer?
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