{"id":819592,"date":"2026-08-24T16:45:14","date_gmt":"2026-08-24T16:45:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/819592\/"},"modified":"2026-08-24T16:45:14","modified_gmt":"2026-08-24T16:45:14","slug":"netsdaily-reacts-where-will-the-brooklyn-nets-finish-in-the-2026-27-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/819592\/","title":{"rendered":"NetsDaily Reacts: Where will the Brooklyn Nets finish in the 2026-27 season?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Welcome to SB Nation Reacts, a survey of fans across the NBA. Throughout the year we ask questions of the most plugged-in Nets fans and fans across the country.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s only so much you can expect from the Brooklyn Nets after a rebuilding 2025-26 season. They finished with 20 wins and haven\u2019t made the postseason since the 2022-23 season. The priority is development and patience, which they\u2019ve made very clear.<\/p>\n

Governing owner Joe Tsai said the Nets won\u2019t steer from their current strategy, despite feeling \u201cembarrassed<\/a>\u201d by the Knicks championship. Sean Marks is aligned with Tsai and made his intentions evident regarding a patient timeline: \u201cNo, not at all. I mean, we\u2019re not going to be motivated or less motivated by what somebody else is doing,\u201d Marks said. \u201cI think we all we control is our path. I think we set out on this a couple of years ago, and I think I\u2019m very happy with what the group has done\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n

Pundits are making their cases<\/a>, which sound like a mixed bag of cautious optimism and some confusion, though none of it will matter once the ball is tipped off in October. Oddsmakers pinned the Nets at 24.5 wins for the season.<\/p>\n

The Eastern Conference has gotten better, too. LeBron James is now in the East, Kawhi Leonard is reportedly headed to the Toronto Raptors, and the Washington Wizards will debut Trae Young, Anthony Davis and 2026 No. 1 overall pick AJ Dybantsa.<\/p>\n

The message is clear, but fans are hopeful. Coaches and players still work everyday in the gym no matter what the external expectations are. If you\u2019re an optimist, then maybe you value the coaching staff and new additions. If you\u2019re a realist, you\u2019ll probably feel similarly to the pundits and oddsmakers.<\/p>\n

Not every team can be the 2001-02 New Jersey Nets, when Jason Kidd took a 26-win Nets team to the Finals in back-to-back seasons. But the whole point of being a fan is having hope (even if expectations are tempered). Ya know, the ol\u2019 adage: expect the worst, hope for the best.<\/p>\n

In a recent NetsDaily poll, 56% of voters<\/a> predicted the Nets would win 30-39 games in 2026-27. That wouldn\u2019t cut it in 2025-26, but the range would\u2019ve been more than enough to compete for a play-in spot in 2023-24 and 2024-25. Both seasons had two teams in the East qualify for the play-in within the 30-39 win range.<\/p>\n

This is the optimists perspective \u2014 the acquisition of three-time All-Star Julius Randle should certainly help, alongside Michael Porter Jr. \u2014 who had a career season with the Nets. They added other veterans like Moe Wagner and Keon Ellis, moved on from Nicolas Claxton and re-signed Day\u2019ron Sharpe, and drafted Mikel Brown Jr. (No. 6) and Joshua Jefferson (No. 28) this past summer. It wouldn\u2019t appear to be nearly enough in a stacked Eastern Conference, but again, it takes an optimistic fan.<\/p>\n

Whichever side you stand on, one thing everyone can agree on: Nobody can argue about wanting to win or lose. The Nets don\u2019t have their own first-round pick in the upcoming draft.. Losing does them no good and winning only speeds up a healthy culture within a team.<\/p>\n

Are you an optimistic fan? A realist? Pessimist? Let us know.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Welcome to SB Nation Reacts, a survey of fans across the NBA. Throughout the year we ask questions…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":819593,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3767],"tags":[7,670,247,64145,3803,6,671],"class_list":["post-819592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn-nets","tag-basketball","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-nets","tag-brooklyn-nets-discussion","tag-brooklynnets","tag-nba","tag-nets"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/117151499802698304","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/819592","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=819592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/819592\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/819593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=819592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=819592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=819592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}