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Rohan Nadkarni

BIZARRE: The nets have reached a new low - What They Never Told You

I am tired of the Nets trying so hard to insult my intelligence.

For example, on Oct. 28, team owner Joe Tsai tweeted “This is bigger than basketball” in reference to Kyrie Irving, whom had recently posted a link to an antisemitic film to his millions of Twitter followers. Tsai said he was disappointed in Irving, apparently so disappointed he didn’t punish his point guard in any way, then let the team do him a favor by not making him available to the media Monday.

How did Tsai follow this up? He fired Steve Nash so he could hire Ime Udoka … the coach so toxic the Celtics were willing to potentially jeopardize a title team so they could suspend him for a full year. A coach who was found by an independent law firm to have made crude comments to a woman below him on the organizational chart … and then began to have an improper romantic relationship with that staffer.

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