It will be another six months before the Nets find out if this was all worth it. The Yankees and Mets will be dozens of games into next season before the Nets see if pingpong balls bounce their way and help deliver a franchise-changing talent.

Until then, the greatest suspense of this season is the date of the Nets’ first win.

Despite one of their stronger efforts of this young and hopeless campaign, the Nets dropped their seventh straight game to open the season in a 125-109 loss to the Anthony Edwards-less Timberwolves on Monday night at Barclays Center.

The Nets (0-7) matched the franchise’s worst start in 10 years and are nearly halfway to the worst start in NBA history, an 0-18 skid produced by the 2009-10 New Jersey Nets. Their next chance to end the winless streak comes Wednesday

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