Bill Simmons’ opinion of Brooklyn Nets: ‘I don’t like this team’

The Brooklyn Nets are beginning a new era in which the present and future is about youth and potential now that Kevin Durant, Kyrie Irving, and James Harden are no longer part of the team. Due to the change in personnel, most in the NBA space believe that the Nets will be a fringe playoff team at best.

To that point, Bill Simmons recently published an episode of “The Bill Simmons Podcast” in which he, along with Ryen Russillo and Joe House, previewed the Atlantic Division in terms of whether each team will go over or under their projected win total for the 2023-24 season.

When it was time to discuss the Nets, Simmons had some interesting things to say about Brooklyn. For context, in the video posted below, the over/under that the trio is reacting to for the Nets is 37.5 wins, which seems to be consistent with where most betting markets have the Nets in terms of expectations.

“I personally think they blew it not going for Dame (Damian) Lillard. So, here’s where it gets tough because I don’t like this team and they are making Ben Simmons the point forward and Spencer Dinwiddie has had some thoughts about this already. He’s positive about it but, he had the car keys last year and now, Ben’s going to have the car keys. So, he’s (Dinwiddie) going to have to learn to adjust off the ball.”