With the New York City vaccine mandate around athletes and performers now officially lifted, Kyrie Irving is set to return to playing full-time for the Brooklyn Nets. It comes late in the season and not a game too soon for this team who desperately needs to win games down the stretch. But where does his return and the rest of the Nets’ situation lineup up with their title hopes? It’s a tricky question for the team that was the odds-on title favorite before the season began. But that’s all changed.

Where do they stand now? Doug Norrie walks through the title odds, the road to the Finals through the East and what the Nets’ closing lineups could look like were they to get all the way. There are quite a few factors to weigh in on the title hopes for the this Brooklyn Nets team. 

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