Well, this is sort of new.
Sergey Karasev isn’t a household name. He’s in his third NBA season, second with the Brooklyn Nets, and hasn’t even played a total of 750 minutes for his career. He’s appeared in just two game this year, and the Nets declined to pick up his option for next season.
And now he wants out of Brooklyn.
According to his dad.
And the world needs to know that the Nets are a crap show.
According to his dad.
During an interview with SovSport, Karasev’s father lit into the Brooklyn organization, coming to the defense of his son. Here’s what he said, per Nets Daily:
“It’s totally confusing,” said Vasily Karasev, once one of Russia’s best players and now coach of Triumph in the Russian basketball league. “Sergey is totally healthy. But the coach seems to be thinking something different: he said that he does not see Sergey as part of the team. Based on what I’ve seen personally – the team is in total disarray. If I went there myself – even that would be better. The team has no game.”
The senior Karasev said as a result, his son is talking about trades.
“Sergey is starting to discuss trade scenarios. He’s a young guy (22), he has to play. He feels that he’s fully rehabbed, that his health is good. So to sit on the bench for a whole year is just not acceptable,” said Vasily Karasev, according to a translation.
Karasev’s father would, per Nets Daily, go on to discuss why his son’s dip in exposure between this season and last could come down to “political reasons.” Whatever that means.
For what it’s worth, though, Karasev threw some Twitter love in the direction of Nets fans:
Love kids and Nets fans..??? pic.twitter.com/H58dpqawOZ
— Sergey Karasev (@SKgetbuckets) November 19, 2015
Unfortunately, I’m thinking “kids and Nets fans” don’t apply to Lionel Hollins or owner Mikhail Prokhorov at the moment. Hopefully Karasev is on good terms with Brook Lopez, because how could you not be on good terms with Brook Lopez?
More seriously, Karasev’s father isn’t wrong. The Nets are a dumpster fire. They have one of the NBA’s three-worst records, don’t have an abundance of young building blocks to groom and don’t enjoy the rights to their own first-round pick until 2019.
Things are not looking up in Brooklyn, and Karasev’s apparent unhappiness, while an afterthought in the minds of most, is a symptom of that incurable chaos.
