Brooklyn Nets Receive: G Kyle Lowry, F P.J. Tucker, 2023 First-Round Pick (MIA)

Miami Heat Receive: G Kyrie Irving

We anticipate a hoard of angry Brooklyn Nets fans responding to this article. We suggest that you may be misdirecting your anger.

NBA Analysis did not depress Kyrie Irving’s trade value. He did that all on his own. With this package, the Nets take a talent downgrade, but on the other hand, they get two players who will consistently show up to work.

In fact, both Lowry and Tucker do so with their hard hats on. The Nets get a pair of hardworking, high-IQ, high-character veterans in exchange for the volatile Irving here.

If Durant stays healthy and Ben Simmons rounds back into form, this could make them a better team in 2022-23. On the other hand, the Nets could be forgiven for declining such a talent downgrade. For all of his flaws, Kyrie Irving is one of the most talented basketball plays on the face of this (very) round earth.

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If they can’t stomach parting with him for two aging players, the Heat may have another package to offer them.