Have you ever looked back at a particular moment in your life and thought, “I should have seen that coming?”  Sometimes, NBA teams suffer the same fate.

Perhaps you got fired from a job. When you didn’t get invited to the Christmas Party, you should have seen it as a sign that your time was coming. Instead, you told yourself it was an oversight. 

They’ll convince themselves that a situation can improve when the rest of the world doesn’t think it will. In hindsight, they’ll realize that they should have known what everyone else did. 

The Los Angeles Lakers and Brooklyn Nets may both be at such a juncture. They have immediate problems that are obvious to most of the NBA world.

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If they don’t remedy them soon, they may be kicking themselves in hindsight. 

Here’s a deal that aims to help them both avoid that fate.