The Nets are trying to copy the Warriors, as a basketball team and a business. Then there’s Kyrie Irving

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This month, the sports activities world has watched Steph Curry lead the Warriors to a fourth NBA title and watched Kyrie Irving lead the Nets into chaos.

The NBA has for years more and more devoted itself towards participant empowerment, and the Nets have leaned into that development as a lot as any group within the league. However they’re additionally serving as a cautionary story of what participant(s) to empower.

That shift to a tradition of participant empowerment allowed the Nets to land superstars Kevin Durant and Kyrie Irving as a free-agent package deal deal in June 2019.

Since then, Nets proprietor Joe Tsai has been intent on making the group a state-of-the-art operation like Alibaba, the Chinese language e-commerce large of which he's the co-founder, or just like the star-studded Warriors.