The Brooklyn Nets are rebuilding from scratch again and are in quick need of assets after throwing away a load of draft picks for Paul Pierce and Kevin Garnett. The often injured Jeremy Lin continues to be out of the team, his latest being an re-aggrevated hamstring injury that will take five more weeks to get alright. So, the team management must be thinking of offloading him and getting some valuable talents in return.

The Nets should actively shop Brook Lopez, their former All-star center who is the only player on their roster with any value. They might be able to get future first round pick for Lopez, who has avoided foot injuries in the last two to three seasons and played the All-star game in 2013.

In the current position Nets are in, paying Boston dearly with No.1 picks for their Pierce-Garnett move in June 2013, this is a no-brainer thing. Without any control of their first-round pick till 2019, they have to move to for Lopez, otherwise things can become more rough and it can be late too.

They were able to sign Jeremy Lin last summer just because he was looking for a place where he can start games. He and his coach Kenny Atkinson had worked together when both were with the Knicks and Lin became a sensation.

But other than getting Lin via a three-year, $36-million deal, they struck out when they lost out on two free-agent moves, as Portland matched their four-year, $75 million offer for Allen Crabbe, and Miami matched their four-year, $50-million offer sheet for Tyler Johnson.

The Lin signing has been a flop, they didn't sign him to hold up the boards and cheer the team and write the stats from outside, but due to his lengthy injury lay offs, these things are becoming his primary duties. He has started as point guard for only 12 games. With Lin, the Nets were only 3-9, but hasn't played more than six consecutive games in an injury-laden season.

Trading Lopez is the best they can do, as their roster is filled with unproven players with very little or no value. No one really knows how the Rookie GM of Nets, Sean Marks will react to a current situation of Lin.

But it wouldn't be counted as a surprising if Marks does not move for Lopez by the 23rd of February, trading deadline and decides to wait till the June draft to try to deal off Lopez, who has a year to run on his contract at $22.6 million for 2017-18.

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