With their 19th pick tonight the Brooklyn Nets opted to trade for Landry Shamet. And honestly, watching an NBA draft without the Brooklyn Nets picking in the first round is nothing new to me, as most drafts of my life have consisted of the Boston Celtics taking a complete stud with the Nets pick, so why change it up now?

I’m not really mad about this trade though, Shamet’s a proven scoring whose got great potential, and what would we have gotten with that pick anyway? Considering the fact that this draft class lacks any sort of firepower, Brooklyn probably would’ve drafted a guy who’ll be playing in China within 3 years anyway, so just grab Shamet.

So the Nets now find themselves in a strange position, in which they have the depth of Queen Latifa’s vagina. If the roster stay’s as is (which it 99.999999999% won’t) the Nets will have the following guys coming off the bench: Spencer Dinwiddie, Bruce Brown, Landry Shamet, Taurean Prince, Deandre Jordan, Nic Claxton… 5 guys that would start on most other teams in the league.

Soooo we’re most likely just fucking loading up on dudes to throw at the Rockets for James Harden. Don’t get me wrong, getting James Harden is going to be completely erotic, but the fact that its gonna come at the cost of gutting this entire roster devastates me. I completely envision a scenario in which Brooklyn only returns like 1-3 non KD/Kyrie players from last year, and the thought of that motivates me to see a therapist.

Like there are guys on this roster who have been in the fire with the Nets since the team had no direction whatsoever. There are guys like Spencer Dinwiddie and Caris LeVert who are responsible for putting the Nets in the position to get stars in the first place, and they’re gonna be rewarded for that by getting shipped to Houston.

It’s not just the big names like Spencer and Caris though, the thought of losing a lot of these bench guys depresses me as well. Like, I wanna see Rodions Kurucs and Timothe Luwawu-Cabarrot get minutes in the eastern conference, I want the team that makes a run to have some semblance of the Nets, not just be a bought out super team. Don’t get me wrong, Harden would be sick, but I’m gonna miss my guys, man.

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