After the trade deadline, the Nets could’ve been seen as a longshot for the playoffs. Mikal Bridges, though, said they didn’t use that as motivation.
What a difference two months can make.
After the Nets traded Kevin Durant to the Suns on the eve of the Feb. 9 trade deadline, Kyrie Irving, who already had been shipped to the Mavericks, told reporters of his former Brooklyn teammate, “I’m just glad he got out of there.” Since then, the Nets, led by Mikal Bridges and Cam Johnson, whom they received in exchange for Durant,And while Durant and the Suns are well-positioned in the Western Conference, Irving spent Friday night on the benchin an effort to avoid giving up their potentially high draft pick to the Knicks as part of the deal that sent Kristaps Porzingis to Dallas in 2019.
After the Irving and Durant trades, the Nets could have been seen as a longshot to make the playoffs.“No, not really,’’ Bridges said. “People talk and stuff, [but] they don’t, I mean, you don’t know. … You’re not in here every day, you’re not working hard, being in the gym every single day and [knowing] how much work we’re trying to put in. So, no, that wasn’t it. It was just to ourselves and what we all wanted. We all wanted to win and all wanted to be in the playoffs.
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