Nets’ most pivotal season begins now
After Elimination, Brooklyn Confronted With Uncertain Future
The longer the Nets’ first-round playoff series with Atlanta went on, the longer the franchise could delay what will likely prove to be the most important offseason since its arrival in our fair borough.
But the top-seeded Hawks finally sounded the death knell on Brooklyn’s up-and-mostly-down campaign last Friday night with an easy 111-87 Game 6 victory in front of a sellout crowd of 17,732 fans at Downtown’s Barclays Center.
“I’m proud of our team, where we started back in September, the uncertainty, new coach, trying to blend it all together,’’ Lionel Hollins said in defense of a squad that won only 38 of its 82 regular-season contests to snag the No. 8 seed in the Eastern Conference.