The Brooklyn Nets Rebuild Begins…NOW
Dan and Grant are joined by Lucas Kaplan (@lucaskaplan) from Nets Daily for a deep dive into the 2025-26 Brooklyn Nets. FOLLOW LUCAS’ WORK HERE: https://www.netsdaily.com/authors/lucas-kaplan. CHAPTERS BELOW.
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CHAPTERS⤵️
0:00 – INTRO
1:27 – What is the Nets’ plan?
5:21 – The Cam Thomas situation
15:26 – Brooklyn’s draft philosophy
19:56 – The vision Egor Demin
22:13 – Outlook for Nolan Traore and Ben Saraf
25:55 – Will Drake Powell and Danny Wolf play?
30:03 – Picking the Nets’ most interesting prospect
33:32 – The Michael Porter Jr. transition
35:59 – What we learned about Jordi Fernandez
40:44 – The defensive identity
41:58 – Future of Nicolas Claxton
46:42 – Can Kobe Bufkin break out?
48:40 – The non-core youngsters
52:32 – Biggest needs
53:06 – Under the radar storylines
54:13 – Top-10 rotation
57:09 – Go-to closing lineup
58:57 – Weirdo lineups we want to see
1:02:57 – The Nets are mad scientists
1:05:17 – PREDICTIONS
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5 Comments
if he actually took less for the NTC, he should be glued to the bench. Nets don't need him or his style for what they're trying to build.
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Back to back games could be used as an excuse to play the five rookies.
26 and 27 should've been McKneely/Fleming and Kalkbrenner. Chills. Although getting at least one good ball handler makes sense ig
I wonder if the Nets could be a landing spot for Giannis if he does demand a trade. As a Bucks I am off the opiniom they cannot trade him to the Knicks under any circumstances circumstances because they don't have the asset. If they do trade him to the Knicks it will be worse than the Luka trade. The Nets on the other hand probably could offer the most draft picks out of anyone in the East, the problem is most of those picks belong to the Knicks so are not that valuable except for their 2031 pick maybe. The Nets also have young players they could offer thr Bucks and numerous reports I read indicate they consider him to be their plan A. They also will have a lot of cap space so in 2027 they could sign more players then.