Exits: Regress to the mean

Taking stock of the two different Nets of this season and, if left alone, what these Nets can finally be.

It’s hard to picture Ben Simmons doing anything. Unlike the other players in his vaulted orbit (Joel Embiid, Jimmy Butler) or draft class (Jaylen Brown, Pascal Siakam), Simmons has, for the majority of his career, been unknown to us. The first chance we had to know him, we were told something about him wasn’t quite right.

There was one guy that just wal…