Brooklyn Nets: $60 Million Cap Space for Draft Picks | 2025 Mock Offseason | Third Apron Salarycast

Brooklyn Nets: $60 Million Cap Space for Draft Picks | 2025 Mock Offseason | Third Apron Salarycast

welcome to another Third Apron salary cast i am your host Yosi Goslin and this is a another mockoff season this time on the Brooklyn Nets the one team that for sure projects to have a lot of cap space this summer and these mockoff seasons if you’re not familiar with them I do hypothetical moves mainly for fun but also to show how teams can accomplish certain moves within the cap salary cap rules and I’ve got a special guest helping me out today on this one because there’s just so many possibilities the way the Nets can go about using their cap space i needed to get some direction on what the moves could look like joining me one of the best guys covering the Nets he is the host of the Locked On Nets podcast Eric Slater eric so the Nets right now seem like they’re going to be the only team with significant cap space this summer maybe something somewhere around like 50 million maybe a little bit more than that so what are the Nets trying to do with their cap space yeah I’d say you know they definitely could go after free agents as anybody with cap space camp but I think the most likely route is them kind of taking a page out of Shawn Marx’s old playbook the first time that he rebuilt the team back in uh starting in 2017 taking on some salary dumps trying to acrue more draft capital and this coming season as a byproduct of that might be you know a more extended rebuild maybe another tanking season but them really loading up and stockpiling draft picks using that cap space and then they have all these first round selections being able to you know bring in some good young costc controlled players this draft and then probably next two and kind of build this up I wouldn’t say exactly in the thunder model but having a lot of draft picks a lot of assets and a lot of good young costcontrolled players so I think that would be the game plan with the cav space I agree and the Nets already have the most draft picks in the league they have 16 first round picks over the next day draft I believe 16 second round picks as well So yeah I wouldn’t expect the Nets to go after any free agents in the traditional sense i don’t think they’re going to go after some of the best guys like Miles Turner Nazri Ty Jerome i I wouldn’t expect them to do those types of moves one thing that the front office has done in pre in the previous decade is make big offer sheets to restricted free agents i thought maybe it might be the return of that but I would get the feeling probably not so that means I wouldn’t expect them to go out and make a big offer to guys like Jonathan Kaminga Josh Giddy Quentyn Grimes just to name a few yeah I think they’re going to try to add more draft picks but I think also probably a little more urgently the draft is in about like a week from this recording and I like in a couple days I think they are probably going to try to do some moves to move up in the draft they unfortunately fell a couple spots in the lottery and they’ve got also three picks outside the lottery i would imagine they’re gonna for sure do something to at least consolidate maybe try to move up or maybe at least try to move some of the lower picks up uh combine them try to get another lottery pick potentially uh and as far as getting future picks they mostly have a surplus in the oddnumbered years uh I don’t think they have an extra pick in any of the even numbered years so if hopefully they can try to get some extra picks in uh even number years to better balance that distribution yeah that sounds like a good plan i mean they’re loaded obviously in this draft with 8 19 26 27 also up 36 they have less picks in 2026 and moving forward as you said in those even years so I think it would make some sense you know I think a lot of people expect there to be picks from 20 to 30 that are going to be available for trade with some teams trying to get into this draft so with the Nets having 26 and 27 they could package those to move up or they could also look to you know use one or both of those to maybe pick up an asset in next year’s draft or in another evenear draft where they could kind of balance it out more and you know give themselves potential for that pick maybe to land a little bit higher now it’s worth noting that the Nets currently they have a bunch of trade exceptions uh but as far as actually creating the cap space they’re going to have to renounce them so while you see these trade exceptions technically like they have that Mikuel Bridges one in theory they could bring in a player that fits into this exception before like on draft night and and get the trade official before July coming in but the Nets are also right up against the first apron uh in this current season so most likely they won’t do these exceptions but that doesn’t mean that they can’t they have to like you know wait to until free agency once they have cap space to agree to certain trades where they use it they can agree to these trades on draft night anyways and just wait till free agency so it could become official so whatever we do they could you know make moves uh like certain like they could resign some of their own players uh they can already agree to trades even though they’re not official it won’t interfere with their draft night plans if they want to move up and and it requires them using up some cap space to do it there’s they’ll be able to agree to trades uh and and execute them later yeah no it sounds like there’s um there’s a lot of possibilities of ways that they can do it and I would expect them possibly even in the coming days and definitely you know in those days leading up to the draft to be very involved with you know a lot of the stuff that’s happening in the league obviously with the KD sweep stakes some of the other teams trying to maneuver around the draft and I would expect them to firmly be in the mix all right so before we make any moves any trades any signings we need to first decide how much cap space are the Nets working with so we’re going to do a couple decisions first first of all the most obvious is cap holds they have all these free agents and all these free agents have uh they have these cap holds they’re like a placeholder that uh basically allow the Nets to keep their bird rights and resign them after but they’re not actually going to have their cap space until they renounce a lot of these so technically they’re like negative cap space so looking at all these players uh and I think the most obvious one that they’re going to keep is Cam Thomas uh but is there anyone else that you think they might keep or could we go ahead and renounce everybody else um I think at those capold numbers you can renounce everyone else i mean Don Sharp is the one who I think would there’s you know there would be somewhat of a debate there but I think that they’d be able to renounce him and get him back at a number probably slightly below that or even in that ballpark and uh yeah I think they’d just be able to work something out with him there so that would be the only one but other than that yeah I think you’d be safe to renounce those people all right so we went ahead and renounced everybody except for Cam Thomas and the reason is that they’re going to keep this $12 million cap hold on the books so they have $12 million for Cam Thomas interfering with their cap space so they’re going to be able to spend this amount 53.4 million that’s how much cap space they now have after renouncing everybody else and then after they spend this amount this much they can go over the cap to resign Cam Thomas as far as Zyra Williams $18 million cap hold $8 million qualifying offer i think I’m sure the Nets would want to bring him back but I think that they’re gonna have they’re for sure going to have to not keep his capold on the book otherwise they’re working with $18 million less so he’ll be an unrestricted free agent and you know hopefully the Nets can bring him back may they have the room medle exception uh after the spend that 8 million $8.7 million mount that could be an option there uh as far as Dron Sharp he had a $12 million cap hold there’s a couple ways they can go about it one just uh renounce him straight up and then also use the rumid level after so they can use that after using up all their SP cap space to resign him and I kind of feel like that’s where his market at but instead I did something a little different i had them resign to a three-year $24 million contract which is again kind of roughly the room level uh on a descending contract so it starts up a little higher goes a little lower i’ll get into the contract specifics a little later in this video but the main thing is he’s starting with a salary that’s lower than that $12 million capold so in a way the Nets kind of gain a little bit more cap space so I think that’s one way the Nets can go about his situation resolve it early on which they’re allowed to do after the finals end and uh then you know just a way to figure out how much cap space they have no I think that makes sense you know they’ll have that that exclusive negotiating window with him the day after the finals end leading up to the start of free agency and historically with a lot of their guys who are entering um free agency or that restricted free agency Shawn Marks has got a lot of extensions done before those guys have hit the market so with in Dron’s case I it seems like he wants to be back i know the Nets were very encouraged by what he did last season i think they want him back and being able to work something out before he could hit free agency i think would make a lot of sense there and with that number you know potentially coming in below that cap hold them adding a smidge to their cap space i think that would be a logical route for them to go a lot of cap cap holds gone uh no D’Angelo Russell cap hold rest in peace to some older ones like LaMarcus Aldridges Wilson Chandlers Mike James uh if you guys enjoy looking at uh capshets.com and you’ve seen those names on the Nets page unfortunately those are going to go away now so the next thing we need to do is look at some of their non-G guaranteed players team option players uh because they can get a little bit more cap space if like right now they’re like I mentioned they’re at 53 million we can get that a little higher so is there any guys that you think they might cut amongst this group and any that you think they might prioritize to keep yeah I think I the three guys that I’d be looking at are well Keon Johnson I think they’re probably gonna keep him he played a surprisingly featured role last season i think he was third on the team in shot attempts um per game amongst the guys who finished the year on the roster and you know there’s some issues there but like with his offensive game but I think they were encouraged by what he did defensively um Jaylen Wilson I think you know there’s the jury’s obviously out on what he’s going to be in the NBA long term but I think he’s done enough during these first couple seasons and then the guys you’re left with beyond that Maxwell Lewis Tyrese Martin Drew Timmy based on the Nets having Claxton and Sharp and you know we’ll see what they do with those guys i wouldn’t expect Timmy to get a standard roster spot he could go to a two-way and then you’re in between Lewis and Tyrese Martin and I think they could really go either way with those guys i think Tyrese was encouraging lewis was injured then came back at the end of the year and had some encouraging stretches shot it well from three so I think you could go either way there and whichever one doesn’t get the standard contract can also become a two-way player so they have a pathway to uh retain all of those guys so that’s kind of how I see it going all right so then I went ahead and just kept Kon Johnson Maxwell Lewis Jaylen Wilson i got off I I moved off of Tyrese Martin Andrew Timmy uh both players still have restricted free agent eligibility uh but uh that would require the Net Cap holds so I don’t have their cap holds on the book they’re going to be unrestricted free agents so they could maximize their cap space they are now with 57.5 million in cap space uh so I’m going to keep uh the rest of these guys mainly because for the moves that you put together uh they’ll be able to keep this combination of three players uh we’re going to be able to do everything with this amount of cap space all right let’s make some trades so here’s the first trade you came up with the Brooklyn Nets are facilitating a Kevin Durant trade to the Spurs and they’re mainly taking on Harrison Barnes and getting one first round pick for their troubles yeah I think we see you know the Suns are going they’re involved in negotiations with several teams right now and I think it’s pretty safe to assume I think other people have reported that a goal of theirs is going to be getting out of the second apron during this deal because we’ve seen how that’s just hamstrung them from a team building perspective during this past season and with where they’re at while they’re still going to be trying to compete I don’t think it really makes sense for them to be in the second apron um so in this deal I think there’s a lot of different variations of this deal in the way play out but in this deal the Nets you know just taking on Harrison Barnes the one year left on his contract and they’re moving up from 27 to 14 um you know if you want to haggle about the price if you’re saying it should be 36 they should give up 36 and go from 36 to 14 spurs I mean Suns fans might feel the other the other direction on it but regardless they’re taking on an expiring contract in Harrison Barnes and they’re you know getting another lottery pick which is something that we know that they’ve potentially wanted to do there’s other variations of this deal where maybe the Suns want to keep Harrison Barnes and maybe they want to send Grayson Allen instead and that could change maybe what the Nets want to get back because he has uh three years left on his contract but I just think from all the teams perspectives like the Suns save what is it nearly $21 million in this deal they have some room below the second apron to fill out the rest of their roster the Nets take on an expiring contract and they get to move from the end of the first round into picking up a second lottery pick and obviously the Spurs get get uh Kevin Durant without you know giving up any of really of their you know core four you know guys so I I think that it makes sense um from all the teams perspectives and I think it’s the kind of move where the Nets can leverage their cap space to try to pick up a premium asset so that’s how I was seeing it yes so as far as the Suns common theme on my show is that I just don’t think the return for him is going to be that great i wouldn’t be surprised if this is what the Suns come out with not a sexy return by any means but you know they’re getting two picks and Vel for the most part uh and Sohan he’s got one year left on his deal but yes $21 million in savings they uh that would put him in position to get below the second apron uh below the first i think they’d still be just above the tax so you’re talking about like couple in a you know at the end if they get below the tax that’s like a couple hundred million dollars in savings so they get that as well uh Spurs get a KD and I understand the rationale that they’re taking on a year of Barnes and moving up one of those late first to get into a late lottery pick got to satisfy the Suns a little bit more and so I plugged in the trade I put in Harrison Barnes and that 14th overall pick for the 27th overall pick and this trade uses up approximately uh $20 million of their cap space so they are now down to 36.5 million and we’ve still got a couple more trades to go all right next we’ve got the Raptors trading RJ Barrett and the ninth overall pick to the Nets in exchange for Cam Johnson number 26 and 14 on the trade machine it says 19 but we’re actually doing 14 i can’t say that the Nets already have 14 because that’s a trade we did yeah this was a rumored framework and something that I talked about with um Bob Winrenum from Nets Daily who had some intel on it and the framework that he floated was Cam Johnson and 19 to move up to possibly nine where the Raptors are while taking on a bad contract and based on the likely candidates looking at the Raptors cap sheet RJ Barrett would probably be the likely guy and we kind of tweaked this with 14 and 26 instead of 19 because I think a lot of Raptors fans would probably say that that’s not a the 19 and CJ to move up to nine uh while also giving up RJ Barrett for them wouldn’t be a trade that would make a ton of sense i think it makes some sense but I think there would definitely be haggling from back and forth this one from the Nets perspective I think the Nets would have pause with this one because of how they value CJ but I think it accomplishes a goal of giving them another uh top 10 pick and also you know they’re picking 89 then back to back and also they you know this works under the cap for them so there’s a logic you know I think it might be somewhere between those two frameworks that we talked about with 14 versus 19 and I think both sides kind of would have to uh you know negotiate and haggle on that end i think the Nets moving up and getting a second top 10 pick is something that would be attractive to them yes so I plugged in the ninth overall pick and uh RJ Barrett’s $27.7 million salary in for Cam Johnson’s 21 million the 14 and the 26 and the Nets now have two lottery picks in this year’s draft and they have about $31.2 million left to spend all right and then the big move with the remainder of their cap space they’re going to assist the Celtics in saving a bunch of money by acquiring Christophorzingis and his $30.7 million salary and in exchange they are taking a 2032 first round pick that’s lottery protected that way they get an even numbered year it says 2031 but I wasn’t able to select 2032 and to send something to the Celtics they got to send a little something back to u you know cuz it’s still trade they got to send something i have them sending a 2028 second to the Celtics yeah I think this is a framework that has been speculated about you know just logically for a while the Celtics another team that’s going to be looking to duck underneath the second apron and I think there’s been a little bit of posturing recently from them with some reports that they think uh Porzingis and Drew Holiday and these veterans could return them positive value in a deal i’m I’m kind of skeptical about that given what we saw from Porzingis down the stretch of the season with the mystery illness and him looking really like a shell of himself in the playoffs so in this deal the Nets take back an expiring with Porzingis because it’s an expiring you know it’s still a big chunk of salary with 30 million but because it’s only an expiring they pick up a future lottery protected first round pick and after this coming season they’ll be done with it and then kind of reset their cap sheet with him coming off the books also earlier deal we put together Harrison Barnes is an expiring he’ll be coming off the books so these are really just you know the Nets kind of eating this money for these one years picking up more assets and then the next year their cap flexibility will kind of come back when these guys come off the book so I think there’s a story you could tell where it makes a lot of sense from the Nets from that perspective and also from the Celtics end they’re ducking below the second apron and they’re only giving up a lottery protected future first so I think it makes sense for both sides from that perspective and in real life they can maybe the Celtics can try to negotiate this the protection a little stronger to be similar to when the Warriors uh traded Jordan Pull to the Wizards they traded a top 20 uh first round pick that was protected in 2030 so uh there’s a lot of ways the protection can go and so here is the updated Nets cap sheet i plugged in Christophs Borzingis with his $3.7 million salary and that’s it the Nets used up just about all their cap space so in the process they take on essentially $59 million in expiring money through Barnes and Porzingis and the remaining two years 57 million remaining on RJ Barrett’s deal in the process they move up to ETH uh and get a future draft uh a valuable future draft pick way distant in the future that you know they’ll have it’ll have some value over the years they can depending on how the Celtics are doing another team might perceive it more uh higher than other times of the year maybe they could do something with that pick later and maybe like you mentioned earlier they could potentially flip some of these veterans they brought in later bring in some more positive value yeah you know it’s a a route that makes sense we’ll see if this is the ultimate you know the specifics we’ll see there’s a lot of different ways that it could go but them staying on the theme of really maintaining their long-term cap health here while taking on expiring but also picking up some assets moving in picking up another uh top 10 picks they’ll be picking back to back and getting a future first i think this is a path that is realistic for them to go and I think with them being the only team with cap space and these other teams like the Suns or the Celtics who are going to be trying to duck the second apron I think there’s a lot of different ways that they could work something out to their benefit all right so now that the Nets have used up all their cap space they can go ahead and do some other free agency business the main one is ressigning Cam Thomas so he’s going to be a restricted free agent this summer uh he is going to have a $6 million qualifying offer that the Nets can offer him uh to make him restricted i get the feeling this could be kind of a tough market for everyone including Cam Thomas i feel like the best thing that can go for him is that if the Nets actually ended up trading a lot of their picks to bring in Giannis and then they lose a lot of depth then they really need Cam Thomas and that could help his uh negotiations but most likely uh I think he they’ll resign to something that’s like pretty fair market value so this is a projection that I gave out on the third apron newsletter roughly averaging 13% of the cap which could go up to like four for 90 i g I say 13% because that’s basically what Colin Saxon got with his deal with the Jazz three years ago so I feel like that’s a good comparison but the main difference is I have it starting out much higher and doing the full 8% decreases this has been a common theme with Nets contracts recently they did it with Nick Claxton they kind of did it with Cam Johnson and the thing is like even though they spent a lot of money with cap space they still have so much space below the luxury tax that they might as well use up that flexibility get that number up as high as possible because they’re not going to have that many means to increase their payroll after using their cap space other than the rumid level and then trades so I think I I could see them getting that number up as high as possible and then have a decline that can help them with cap space in future years maybe he gets a little less in this maybe the market’s a little harder but I kind of see this as being kind of like a fair compromise on both sides yeah you I mean I talked about Cam um on a podcast his contract last week and the things that I’ve said is I’ve heard from a lot of I’ve heard from some people within the league just giving their projections on where it lands they said between 20 and $25 million annually i think Bobby Marx uh wrote an article and said that that was the range that he expected also and then also the other thing I said is if they you know is it going to be a short-term contract or is it going to be a long-term contract and if it is a long-term contract I would expect them to frontload it the same way that they did Nick Claxton’s so with this this comes out to I think 22.5 million annually so you you split the 20 and the 25 it’s descending into the final two years um so he’s making below 10% of the salary cap could be really good value if he continues to develop so this is pretty much hit the nail on the head with everything I’d be talk I’ve been talking about i guess the question would be do the Nets want to you know tie up that money on their books with him long term if they were getting him at these kinds of numbers I would think they wouldn’t have an issue with it given the cap hit is going to be so low in those final couple years and then from Cam’s perspective his representation do they want a longer or a short-term deal because Cam’s an extremely confident player he told me at the end of the season that when he played he’s when he’s played the last couple seasons he feels like he’s one of the best guards in the league so does he want to lock himself into this or does he want to do a shorter term deal and re-enter free agency and give himself some more earning potential you never know he might want to do that but he might also this is gonna be his first really significant payday so he might want to lock in that long-term security you never know so I think this could be a good deal for the Nets cam would get a very sizable chunk of uh of money so I think it makes sense for both sides we’ll just see you know where it comes in on the length of it I think is going to be the biggest question yeah that’s the big question the length he could try to get something shorter if it helps boost his earnings but just based on how they’ve gone about negotiations for Claxton and Cam Johnson both got four-year deals i’ll just say for now they’ll probably push for a longer deal try to get it in that four-year range we’ll see how it plays out all right and then Don Sharp so I already alluded to this contract earlier in this video he’s got a $6 million qualifying offer as well uh so I think I could see him resigning with the Nets for roughly the rumid level which is in three years like $24 million so if it’s de uh descending again another framework I could see happening with him as well would start at 8.7 which was the salary number I was using in all these uh projections then it goes down to 7.3 million so nice deal for a good reserve backup big and a contract that is pretty team friendly but also with the descending structure gives them more cap flexibility in the future as well yeah I think this would be a very good deal from the Nets perspective of uh you know getting day round locked in on these numbers i could potentially see him getting a little bit more than this i think there are some you know injury concerns and things along those lines but last year what he was able to do you know with maintaining his dominance as an offensive rebounder and also showing some of the improvements that he did defensively uh in terms of his mobility and some of the things and he even told us at the end of the season that he was you know making it a goal this off seasonason to drop more weight become more mobile do some things like that so I think it would be a good deal for the Nets i think Dron maybe would want a little more than this but I’m not sure exactly obviously where the market’s going to play out from that perspective also he could as same as Cam Thomas push for like a shorter term deal like a two-year deal or something along those lines uh we saw Nick Claxton resign with the Nets at the end of his rookie contract and he signed like kind of like a two-year bridge deal and then he played really well and got that big payday so maybe Dron and his camp look at that and that’s a model that they could look to follow but I think he’s a really encouraging player i think he’s going to get a nice payday this off season and um I think the Nets will want to bring him back and like if it was at these numbers I think that that would be a really good deal for them all right so here is the final roster that we put together i’ve now got Cam Thomas’s new salary number in i also included the 36 overall pick they still have that i put the rookie minimum salary for that and with all these moves they are still $18.8 million below the luxury tax that’s still a lot of money for them to increase payroll more though they could still do some more deals into the season uh uh ahead of the trade deadline where they increase her payroll they’ve got a couple they could increase her payroll significantly through trades so they can do like another big trade or two to get up closer to that tax line uh most likely they will stay below that line i don’t think they’re going to surpass it this year while they’re rebuilding and probably next year as well and they still have their room mid-level exception that $8.8 million amount to spend there’s a couple ways they can go about it yeah I mean we mentioned the free agents and the guy that we haven’t talked about his new contract Desire Williams and he’s a player uh based on what he did with the Nets last season coming in you know being a former lottery pick who the Grizzlies kind of salary dumped to the Nets and having an encouraging year like he shot the best he ever has from three it wasn’t great but it was still it was 34% or 35% around there on careerhigh volume uh defensively I think he really bought into what the Nets wanted him to do in terms of you know being a high energy pressure guy uh so I think that they’ll want to bring him back i think he’ll want to come back because he’s a guy who is gonna going to want to continue to get minutes and flash what he can do to try to earn another deal and the Nets being a rebuilding team will have plenty of leeway to give him a lot of minutes and let him uh shoot as much as he wants so I think that that would make some sense and we’re talking about that uh you know that $8 million exception that they have left i don’t think he’ll get a lot above the minimum i think it’ll be another prove it deal but I think that they could use that to bring Zire back and then beyond that like you said they’ll have more flexibility to if they want to do more things throughout the season yes and so maybe they can give them a portion of that mid-level maybe they could keep some of it because now they could also use that mid-level exception as a trade exception that just another way that they can further increase payroll in trades and this is the Nets payroll for the following season 26 27 with all those moves they’ve made and I’ll show you I’ll explain why I’m showing this but I’ve got RJ Barrett’s $29.6 million salary in you’ve got Cam Thomas’s salary in Don Sharp’s salary again those who are declining i’ve got a projection for them having as high as a number two overall pick next year and with all the other picks that they have in the upcoming draft they are still in a position to have cap space in the following season they can have roughly $40 million to spend to do this all over again maybe they do a couple moves to reduce some of some more payroll gain some more cap space but that’s the other thing is that whatever the Nets do I imagine they’re not going to go too crazy and take it on long-term money and try to keep their flexibility open for next year so they can do this again uh at the same time maybe there’s some free big free agents that are available in 2026 if they’re able to hit on their draft picks this year and get another uh cornerstone next year maybe they’ll be in a position to use that cap space to take this team to the next stage of their uh rebuild yeah they’ll have you know that was what we talked about with Barnes with Porzingis with these guys who are expiring contracts they’ll maintain that cap flexibility and like you said it’s it’s a one-year deal of them you know taking on these guys picking up more assets and then next year Shawn Marks has talked about flexibility optionality you pick up those assets that you did this off season and then you still have the optionality if you want to fast track it you can do that if you want to do this all over again and acrew even more assets while guys develop you can do that so I think it’s a really smart play for um the Nets to pick up some assets and maintain that long-term flexibility and hopefully people agree that um it’s pretty plausible and realistic the moves that we put together and that is the Brooklyn Nets 2025 mockoff season i think we did a pretty good job in showing how the Nets can go about using their cap space uh let us know what you guys think in the comments i’ve been a little uh skeptical in terms of how much quantity in draft picks the Nets can take on with their cap space mainly because if we saw what happened last off season a lot of salary dumps involve like second round picks and expiring money for the most part so hopefully the Nets can at least use it to significantly move up in the draft and if they can get a couple first round picks in the future I think that ends up being a pretty successful off season but yeah let us know what you guys think about the value that they got uh Eric thank you so much for joining me and helping me out giving me some direction in this i really enjoyed this one everyone make sure you’re following Eric on Twitter Eric Slater_ and check out his work at Clutch Points and see him talk regularly about the Nets on Locked on Nets and make sure you are following me on Twitter Yosin on Twitter Blue Sky uh for instant salary cap analysis and all the transactions that come in the coming weeks and please subscribe to Third Apron wherever you get your podcast YouTube Spotify Apple and the newsletter on Substack i will be very active with offseason coverage in the next month or

In this mock offseason, Erik Slater joins me to construct trades in which the Nets use their cap space to move up in the upcoming draft and add more future draft picks. We also acquire veterans and sign Cam Thomas and Day’Ron Sharpe to new deals. Watch as we show how they could acquire these players within the salary cap rules.

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