NBA - Brooklyn Nets to the Free Agency Deals: The invincible becomes even more invincible

Unlike other teams, it has been pretty quiet around Brooklyn Nets on the Wild Day 1 of the Free Agency, but he changed abruptly. As part of their possibilities, the franchise portions for pieces reinforced and possibly landed one of the best obligations of the transfer period.

"We are married to the luxury tax," said Nets owner Joe Tsai at the presentation of the two rounds of rounds Cam Thomas and Day'ron Sharpe Süffisant and made it clear for all, which is the only goal of the New Yorker (and be ) - to win! And for this, the billionaire no costs are too high.

With Patty Mills, one of the most sought-after free agents of the Big Three joined Durant, Kyrie and Harden and can now be called one of the steads of the summer. According to media reports, the long-term Spurs veteran deliberately decided against the Lakers and for the Nets.

While the Lakers really needed him urgently, he is not much more than "Nice to Have" for the Nets. This should not reduce the skills of the Australian, but rather underline the class Brooklyn's. As we already know from the past season, the Nets are in the top as heavily occupied as no other team of the league.

The 30-year-old Mills, who played really strongly in the Olympic Games in Tokyo, becomes elementary for the Nets, especially in the regular season. And for James Harden.

Brooklyn Nets: Mills should relieve the stars

In the past season, the Nets often started the second quarter with harden as the only part of the Big Three on the Court and a pile of banker around him. The result was countless ISO ball situations, as we also know Hardens Rockets times only to meet. Due to the lack of spacings, however, this tactic was usually only partially promising. Mills can help remedy here.

The Guard provides good shooting (41.3 percent catch-and-shoot-three-season) and knows how to lead second units. He did that in the legendary Spurs era around Tim Duncan, Tony Parker and Manu Ginobili with flying colors. Mills allows the Nets to give their three superstars more common time on the bank and accordingly also in the field.

Of course, mills will not be the Closer, as it has shown it for the boomers already countless times, but should keep the stars back. The small guard rotation of the Nets forced Irving and Harden in the past playing time to unobulate many minutes even in Regular Season, which ended up injuries and missed title. This should be over now.

There are also attributes such as combat spirit and playoff experience that Mills already made a fan darling in San Antonio.

FLAPE 29.2 million dollars Luxury tax is owner Tsai.

Brooklyn Nets: The most expensive team of franchise history

But that was not enough, with the extensions of Bruce Brown and Blake Griffin, the franchise made two very important pensions of the preseason Dingfest. Brown was the big Nets surprise and gave Coach Steve Nash many more important minutes - including in an unfamiliar role as a center (he is 1.93 m tall!).

The second big surprise was Griffin, which was brought by buyout from Detroit and was already agreed on any benefit for a franchise with championship ambitions in front of his commitment. But the ex-superstar stressed his critics lying, suddenly drowned again and met incredible 43.3 percent of his catch-and-shoot threes.

To intercept the departure of "Uncle" Jeff Green, Karate Master (he owns the Black Belt!) James Johnson from New Orleans. The 34-year-old is used primarily in the defensive and is intended to hunt the powerful forwards, which has the now strongly occupied East.

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In the course of the Deal Around Landry Shamet, Jevon Carter from Phoenix came to Brooklyn, who is useful in the Regular Season for some good minutes on the Guard positions.

The two rookies Thomas and Sharpe are exciting. Thomas comes with the reputation as a "Walking Bucket" from the college (LSU) and has the potential to become one of the better protectors of the league. The long Sharpe (2.11m) will provide strong rebounding capabilities for presence under the baskets, and he also has a fine knife.

As I said, the whole fun is not cheap but of course. According to Financial Guru Bobby Marks (espn), Nets with the current squad pay $ 121.8 million of dollars of luxury taxes and thus at salary costs of around $ 300 million! This would be the most expensive team of franchise history, ex owner Mikhail Prokhorov paid only 90.6 million dollars in 2014. By the way, the Warriors are still more expensive, between 181 and 197 million dollars of luxury taxes are due for the star team around curry.

Brooklyn Nets: Who defies the invincible?

There were also departures. Shamet was shipped to Phoenix, Green went to Denver and Spencer Dinwiddie will go to Washington in a historic five-team trade. Through the sign-and-trade, two two-round picks and a trade exception are jumped out for the Nets.

In addition to Green, especially Dinwiddie is purely sporty. Due to its long injury in the preseason, however, it is also clear that the Nets do well without him. Much more interesting is the trade exception of $ 11.5 million.

Through their financial situation, the Nets can only dream of Cap Space, which is why this option at the Trade Deadline could be a lot of value. Should Brooklyn be coming season again within reach of the championship, it can be assumed, they could miss the skad on the buyout market to the squad. Through their Star Power you are known to be a welcome destination for title hungry veterans.

This should cause the competition to cause exactly as the fact that the Nets have become even stronger due to the commitment of Mills. If you are still considering that the Nets last season in the first playoff round with full chapel rose a historical value of 1.28 points per ball possession against the Celtics and the later master of Milwaukee without Kyrie and with a one-legged harden on The starting situation was clear: the title is only about Brooklyn in the new season.

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Brooklyn Nets: The current depth chart

Point Guard | Shooting Guard | Small Forward | Power Forward | center --- | --- | --- | --- |- Kyrie Irving | James Harden | Joe Harris | Kevin Durant | Blake grip Patty Mills | Cam Thomas | Bruce Brown | James Johnson | Nicolas Claxton Javon Carter | | | Alize Johnson | Deandre Jordan | | | | Day'ron Sharpe