While the Barclays Center gates may not show it, some Nets fans had a hard time getting fully invested in last season’s team. The players played hard and fought doggedly — perhaps too doggedly for the tastes of some fans rooting for lottery positioning — but the real issue wasn’t their fight. It was their future.

They didn’t have one.

Or more accurately, many of the players on that roster in Year 1 of Brooklyn’s rebuild didn’t have a future with this franchise. They were merely placeholders until the Nets drafted the foundational pieces they plan to build around.

“You just exist on a spreadsheet,” one highly regarded agent recently told The Post of the roster approach.