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Writer's pictureAli Ferhani

The Brooklyn Housewives

Updated: Nov 15, 2022

The past year for the star-studded Brooklyn Nets has been full of scandals, underperformance, and drama among the players, and if you’re a fan of any team that has been involved with their two leaders, Kevin Durant and Kyrie Irving, it’s quite hilarious.

The Nets have been viewed as a poverty franchise for decades. The only championships they’ve won occurred about 50 years ago, long before the team was even in Brooklyn. Like all bad franchises in the NBA, the Nets have had the chance to draft franchise players that would lead to their success honorably. Despite scoring a lot of lottery picks, the team management has either been unlucky or incompetent to develop talent.

However, this past season, the Nets looked unusually promising after signing two of the best scorers, and biggest drama queens in NBA history: Kevin Durant and Kyrie Irving. It’s easy enough to hate Kyrie and Kevin if they’re not on your team because they're so damn good, but throughout their careers they have given fans and franchises other reasons to lose respect.

Kevin Durant’s notorious move of ditching his promising young team including his right hand man Russell Westbrook in Oklahoma City to join the Warrior’s dynasty in 2016 gave him the stigma of being a disloyal teammate and instantly made him easy to root against. Nobody likes a traitor.

Kyrie Irving’s reputation as a respectable player began to disintegrate during his time playing with Lebron in Cleveland. He couldn’t get along with one of the greatest leaders in NBA history which is always a bad sign; a common theme with Lebron is that things go well when they go his way. Kyrie is also a long time flat-earther and pseudo-science advocate (seriously, you should see what this dude posts on social media). He left Cleveland and made his way over to Boston, where he was welcomed with excitement. Boston is a city of tough love; the fans expect the effort, teamwork, and heart that win championships, and unlike the Nets, the Celtics win championships. Kyrie immediately proved to not be a celtic. Getting in arguments with the coach and team, not showing up courtside when injured to support his guys, and other actions contributed to Boston’s disgust. He was not missed when he finally went to the Nets in 2019. Even last season, when returning to the play in front of the Boston crowd he’s flipped off and cussed out fans, and smeared his foot on the center court logo, which worked out just fine when the Celtics swept them in the first round of the playoffs.

Kyrie has recently encountered more controversy within the past month: cancel culture. I can admit this one is a stretch and I feel bad for the guy. He posted a film he watched on his Instagram thinking nothing of it and the internet went bat shit crazy because he already isn’t the most likable guy. The consensus was that the film has “anti-semetic undertones” and that by posting the film, Kyrie was endorsing antisemitism. When asked about it at a press conference, Kyrie refused to answer questions about it, which makes sense, because the internet is completely overreacting. His one mistake was not answering a question along the lines of “Can you condemn anti semitism in all forms?”. Being the headstrong individual he is, he did not realize how the wretched buzzard reporters could manipulate his response as they did and now the Nets and NBA have suspended him, and a lot of other players are scared to speak up for him.

Additional drama the franchise is facing is their interest in former Celtics Head coach Ime Udoka, who cheated on his wife Nia Long with multiple wives of the Celtic’s front office resulting in his suspension by the franchise. The Nets recently fired their head coach Steve Nash due to the team’s piss poor performance, and Udoka took the Celtics to the finals in his first season as an NBA coach, but how could you trust someone that cheated on Nia Long?

To sum it up, the Nets are a mess and as a Celtics fan, I couldn’t be happier.

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