NBA: 2022-23 Eastern Conference pre-season playoff projections

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4. Brooklyn Nets

There are plenty of questions surrounding the Brooklyn Nets heading into this season and deservedly so. It was a chaotic offseason in Brooklyn and I’m not quite sure how that will end up impacting this team throughout this season.

And I think we’ll see it most at the beginning of the season, as they try and accommodate all the new pieces in the rotation. And it all begins with Ben Simmons, who has been away from the NBA for a year and a half. How is he going to look once the regular season begins and how he’ll fit with Kevin Durant and Kyrie Irving is anyone’s guess.

However, I believe that the Nets have the potential to be very good if they can all click before the end of the season. Though, that’s one big question that we can’t be sure of without seeing a larger sample size from this current core.

The fourth seed may even be too high, but I’m trusting the talent in this situation.