Brooklyn Nets: $50 million cap space plans, trades, and more | 2025 Offseason Preview | Podcast
Brian Lewis of New York Post joins the show to discuss the Brooklyn Nets upcoming offseason.
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4 Comments
Thanks for this! Very much a complex structure for a team with lots of cap space and picks but not high end first round picks.
The cap space is where Nets need to use to further build up their draft capital and picks for at least 2026 & 2027.
Yossi. Looking for place to put this, and doing it here since it's your latest item.
When doing the Celtics not that Tatum is lost for next year, can you talk about a scenerio where:
1. the salary dump Porzingis
2. keep Brown+White+Jrue
3. keep Pritchard & Hauser's reasonable contracts/extensions
4. looks bringing Al back for another modest discount
How far does it get them under the 2nd apron? What are the tax implications? What flexibility and exception options would they have while staying under.
Basic theory: in the weak East, can they craft a 2026 "holding pattern" 1st apron payroll around Brown & White & Jrue + Pritchard & Hauser + fill in the rest (specifically Big filler) to simply get through the season into a Play-In / 6th Seed level team.
37 wins was Play-In. 44 wins was 6th seed, with at least one Top 6 likely to fall below that (MIL)… and of course the Celtics were Top 6 as well.
Just curious how much dumping Porzingis' contract buys them breathing room in what otherwise is a disaster of a season.
I agree the Spurs might be willing to trade but at what price
Nets need to come out of this draft with Fears and Queen.