Years from now — or maybe even decades hence — 2023 will have provided two of the biggest “What Ifs?” in basketball and baseball, and in New York sports history.
Yes, drama did in a Brooklyn team that was expected to last. Meanwhile the Amazin’s bet big to win, but ageThey’re two of New York’s biggest disappointments — and priciest to billionaires Steve Cohen and Joe Tsai, the richest sports owners in New York.
“We got off on the wrong foot. Everything that could go wrong did early,” said Verlander, who missed the first month of the season with a teres major strain. Then there was Pete Alonso’s wrist and bone bruise, Starling Marte’s migraines and closer Edwin Diaz missing the season with a fluke knee injury celebrating at the World Baseball Classic. By the end, the Mets knew a bad bet when they saw it. Verlander is 40, Scherzer 39.
Durant and Irving were in their primes when they inked four-year deals in 2019, and formed a Big 3 with James Harden in 2020-21. With Tsai willing to pay the second-highest luxury-tax bill in NBA history, Brooklyn councilmember Robert Cornegy Jr. was already mapping a parade route down Flatbush. That first Big 3 season ended when Harden and Irving’s injuries cost them in a second-round Game 7 loss to the eventual champion Bucks. The next ended in January 2022 when Herbert Jones fell into Durant’s knee.
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