{"id":258065,"date":"2022-10-19T10:16:10","date_gmt":"2022-10-19T10:16:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/?p=258065"},"modified":"2022-10-19T11:11:14","modified_gmt":"2022-10-19T11:11:14","slug":"after-offseason-of-drama-it-s-championship-or-bust-for-nets-even-if-they-won-t-say-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/after-offseason-of-drama-it-s-championship-or-bust-for-nets-even-if-they-won-t-say-it","title":{"rendered":"After offseason of drama, it&#8217;s championship-or-bust for Nets &#8211; even if they won&#8217;t say it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK &#8212; While no one on the Brooklyn Nets will tell you it&#8217;s championship or bust, the sense in 2022-23 is exactly that. This version of the Nets is again in the crosshairs of the Eastern Conference, a group of talented players that have underachieved. The purpose is the same, but the pieces are different. At this time last year, Brooklyn was entrenched as a title favorite with a loaded roster including three of the world&#8217;s best players in Kevin Durant, Kyrie Irving and James Harden. The Nets were the conference&#8217;s No. 1 seed as late as mid-January, but things quickly fell apart. Irving&#8217;s continued unavailability due to his refusal to take the then-city-mandated coronavirus vaccine became a nuisance to his teammates, and Durant missed 21 games due to a left MCL sprain, sending them spiraling down the standings. The season finally took a thud when they were mercilessly swept out of the playoffs in the first round by<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Drama accompanied the Brooklyn Nets throughout the 2021-22 season and into the summer. Can they regroup and win the NBA championship this year?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[255,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-258065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nba","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258065","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=258065"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258065\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=258065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=258065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=258065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}