One year after landing James Harden, the Nets only have played 16 games with their assembled Big 3 — also including Kevin Durant and Kyrie Irving — in the lineup.
They have won 13 of those contests, however, including an impressive blowout performance Wednesday night at Eastern Conference-leading Chicago.
The question remains: How can the Nets maximize the amount of games the trio can play together, with the unvaccinated Irving still ineligible to play in home games and select road games due to local vaccine ordinances?
Asked afterward if he believed the win over the Bulls showed the Nets at full strength are “a title-worthy team,” Irving replied he and his teammates “have felt that way since Day 1,” despite his absence for most of the first half of the season.
“Even when we started in training camp, just having the guys that we have on our team coupled with some great experience and then also young guys that are just really,…