In an odd twist, the Brooklyn Nets losing to the Boston Celtics might not haveactually been as much a surprise to some as one may believe. At the start of the 2021-22 NBA season, the Nets were presumptive favorites to win the title behind Kevin Durant, Kyrie Irving and James Harden.
While the Harden experiment did not go well and the vaccination status of Kyrie Irving intensified by injury to Kevin Durant tossed a wrench in the Nets’ regular-season expectations, there was still optimism ahead of th