Forget Spencer Dinwiddie, Extension for Nets' Big-Three needs to be top off-season priority

The Brooklyn Nets top three All-Stars could potentially be gone after the 2021-2022 season. That, and that alone should scare Sean Marks and Joe Tsai enough in to keeping Kevin Durant, Kyrie Irving and James Harden in Brooklyn for the forseeable future priority number one. The status of the Nets trio is undoubtedly the most pressing need facing the team.

Without the Big-three together, the Nets were ousted by Milwaukee in seven games in the second round of the playoffs despite Durant's heroics that fell a hair short, or in his case a shoe size too big. At full strength, Brooklyn is the odds-on favorite to take the Larry O'Brien Trophy in 2022, but the last thing Marks and company want is for potential opt-out/free agent status hanging over their dynamic weapons all season-long.

 If Durant, Irving and Harden are extended long-term, it will calm the anxiety and question marks surrounding how big the Nets champsionship window realy is. In a pandemic impacted year, the Nets fell short of championship expectations as injuries ravaged the team along with much of the NBA's upper echelon teams. 

The Bucks and Suns were simply, the last teams left standing after a shortened off-season and shortage of practice time and training impacted the health and longevity of many players. Heading into the 2021-2022 season, the Nets will have zero excuses. It's championship or bust. Milwaukee took advanatage of a beaten down Nets team to squeak by and capture its first title in 50 years. 

Now, the Nets have a decades-long championship drought they're aiming to snap, so this offseason is the critical time in which Marks, Tsai, and the rest of the team's braintrust need to secure its top talent by extending the Big-three.