The Nets are finished with the preamble. Now comes the playoffs.
Brooklyn doesn’t have a rivalry with Philadelphia yet, but with the teams’ testy history, the Nets can turn it into one if they can make any real noise in their first-round matchup.
Simmons didn’t play the rest of last season and has been shut down again this season, robbing fans of seeing him play before the Philadelphia fans or guard Harden or Embiid, whom he had a frosty relationship with as 76ers teammates.But Claxton will face Embiid after they’d jawed at each other and gotten double technicals in January’s feisty meeting.
Spencer Dinwiddie and Joe Harris are the only Nets left from 2019, when Jacque Vaughn was an assistant.“We need a little more long-standing success to call Philly a true rival, but we’ve had some ironic meetings. I know they had a little beef — Nic and Embiid got into it, and Embiid had elbowed Jarrett, stuff like that. I’d say it’s too early [to be a rivalry],” Dinwiddie said, adding, “It’s no easy task [playing a MVP].
“Reputations are made in the playoffs. So if Mikal keeps playing at the level he is he’ll be considered a star at the end of this thing, especially if we can advance or do anything special,” Dinwiddie said. “We have a guy who has the ability to play at that level.” “They say you have to have stars to win the championship; they don’t say you have to have stars to win a series. There’s a big difference. So you have to be ready. The Detroit Pistons, I guess they all turned into stars. And the playoffs is what makes you a star, so there’s three or four guys when this playoffs are over, there are going to be new stars that we don’t even know yet. Let’s hope we don’t create them.
With the standings set after Sunday night’s West Coast games went final, the Nets know their draft slots as well.
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