Nets RSS Feed| Rank | Team | Record |
| 1 | Boston Celtics | 51-31 |
| 2 | Philadelphia Sixers | 51-31 |
| 3 | Toronto Raptors | 48-34 |
| 4 | Brooklyn Nets | 44-38 |
| 5 | New York Knicks | 37-45 |
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Nets Analysis
Be careful of easy diagnoses, especially applied to teams that nobody likes, but: the Nets seem as if they were swept due to a bone-deep or perhaps cosmic apathy.
The Suns jumped from 30th in the NBA in Net Rating in 17-18 to 29th to 18th in 19-20 to third last season and first in 21-22.
Winning big on the heels of such a sloppy season would, in some ways, be the ultimate validation of Kevin Durant's unusual sensibility, and the very public struggle he has had with his fame and with the paradox of choice granted to him by how coveted his talents are.