By Eurohoops team / info@eurohoops.net
Acquiring All-Star talent is definitely not a crime in the NBA (or any basketball world) even though it may be treated as such in cases like the one of the Brooklyn Nets. And coach Steven Nash believes the whole criticism just doesn’t make sense.
“It’s not like we did anything illegal. So I don’t know what we’re supposed to do, not try to add to our roster, and just sit pat?” Nash wondered out loud. That’s the idea of this league is to try to put together the best team you can; and that doesn’t guarantee you anything.”
Brooklyn signed Blake Griffin and LaMarcus Aldridge as free agents to add even more strength to a roster that already featured the power trio of Kevin Durant, James Harden and Kyrie Irving. And now it’s like the Nets have automatically become the no. 1 disliked (to say the least) team in the league.
“I don’t even know what that means, villains, in the context of it,” Nash had previously mentioned. “[A staffer] just told me that Blake’s comment this morning was, “Hold on, everyone told me I suck for the last two years, now everyone’s saying I’m the villain because I’m here.’ So a lot of it is just narratives and people love to talk hoops and barbershop and whatever it may be.”