Why Brooklyn Won't Win The NBA Finals

Raise your hand if you thought it would be genius to bring in two middle-aged veterans past their prime in hopes of bringing a first-time championship to a franchise in the same division as LeBron James.

Kevin Garnett and Paul Pierce are future Hall-of-Famers, but they’re 36 and 37-years-old. It shouldn’t have been a surprise to anyone to see that KG couldn’t last the whole season and Pierce was fourth on the team in scoring by the end of the year. The only positive correlation one could have made in regards to the acquisition was that such veteran leadership would have helped first-year coach Jason Kidd during his transition. But I digress…

Give the Nets credit, they’ve made it past the first round. However, here is…

Why the Nets won’t win the 2014 NBA Finals

Rebounds per game, in which they are 29th in the league.

Oh, Deron.

.@DeronWilliams & @TheJoeJohnson7 talk about the Round 2 matchup vs. the Heat. #BKNvsMIA https://t.co/t0EmjT1Ta2 pic.twitter.com/YTt5TdQ7uF

— Brooklyn Nets (@BrooklynNets) May 5, 2014

You know, the two-time defending NBA champs.

Nets.com currently takes you to the Miami Heat website. Yup, I promise, the link hasn’t been doctored. Here’s why.

Surely it can’t be a good omen.

From Elias: “Jason Kidd is the 19th first-year head coach to appear in a Game 7 on the road, and the first to win. The previous 18 first-year NBA head coaches lost by an average margin of 11.2 points in those games.”

That luck won’t continue.

Numbers don’t lie — the Nets are awful on the road while the Heat are great at home.

Nets road record: 16-25

Heat home record: 32-9

If the series goes to seven games the Heat will have four games at home.

… Their star center who’s been out with a broken foot since December. He would have been the Nets’ only player who could have contended with Miami’s center, Chris Bosh, who averages 16 points and 6 rebounds per game. No Lopez means the Heat could dominate the paint.