The dysfunctional Nets have only one choice: Trade Kevin Durant

Steve Nash was dismissed, Sean Marks was disheveled and Kyrie Irving has his fingerprints on dismantling yet another team with championship aspirations.

That’s three, if you’re keeping count.

This is why Kevin Durant understood this dysfunction wasn’t gonna change, that this powder keg of bad ingredients was always due to explode and he tried to get ahead of the posse in asking out of Brooklyn.

If Durant backed down from his summer trade demand only because he had to, what has occurred over the first two weeks of this season would give him hope that his worst fears aren’t reality?

If nothing else, players know when they’re in a burning house, even if they don’t publicly admit it. And Durant has been in the penthouse many times over to know this has no chance of turning around.

Trading him isn’t something the Nets appear to be considering, but Marks should revisit it if he truly wants to operate in the best interests of the organization. Perhaps foolishly, Marks believes Ime Udoka can rescue his franchise — the same way Marks is rescuing Udoka from the shame of misconduct in Boston.

He claims he took no input from the players but any man with sense didn’t have to — Irving didn’t respect this coach (or any, probably), and Durant made his feelings known over the summer.

Marks had no answers for Irving in the wake of his latest mess, only that the team is conferring with the Anti-Defamation League on how to proceed, and that Irving wouldn’t be speaking to the media for the next few days.

It felt like a hint that his disastrous news conference from Saturday, when he was contentious at the notion of being questioned about posting tweets containing an antisemitic movie, would be repeated.

Even if Udoka was a sterling candidate, this is the mess you want your new guy walking into?

“We’re looking for somebody to have poise, charisma, accountability,” Marks said. “We’re not a finished product. We’re not playing up to our expectations or where we should be, so you hope this new coach can come in here and put this group in the best possible place to succeed.”

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In some way, it’s a perfect match of two sides, promising beginnings but internally flawed. Udoka and his brand of brutal honesty and connection with the underachieving Boston Celtics helped turn them around after Jan. 1, resulting in a trip to the NBA Finals.

Does anyone see an NBA Finals roster with these Brooklyn Nets? Nash walked the plank, perhaps too inexperienced and too in over his head to handle all of the drama in his short time.

But there’s hardly any coach who can take this roster through a stacked Eastern Conference, even if Durant is still at the top tier of individual players, alongside Giannis Antetokounmpo and Stephen Curry.

He’s still uncommonly brilliant and that basketball brilliance deserves to be on a more…