Brooklyn Nets Nets players’ frustration mounting amid disappointing start to season By Brian Lewis Published Nov. 9, 2026, 10:35 p.m. ET See more of our coverage in your search results.
Make New York Post a Preferred Source Mavericks guard Kyrie Irving (11) and Nets guard Terance Mann (14) separate Noah Clowney (21) and Morez Johnson Jr. during a game in Dallas, Sunday, Nov. 8, 2026. AP Photo/LM Otero DALLAS — There’s frustration in Brooklyn, and it’s not just among fans.
After three consecutive tough seasons — the last two marked by brazen tanking — the promise of organizationally trying to win and the presence of young, long-term prospects in which to emotionally invest was supposed to make this year better.
That’s what is making this struggling start — disjointed and disconnected — all the more maddening. That anger is clearest amongst the Nets themselves, with bad body language, frustration fouls and lost poise painfully evident on the court.
“It’s frustrating,” Moritz Wagner admitted with a rueful grimace. “Don’t get me wrong, it’s not really funny. It is a dilemma you’re in because you don’t want to get caught up with the emotion, with the frustration.
