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Entering year one of their rebuild, the Brooklyn Nets are taking fliers on several former top prospects. During his first rebuild with the Nets, General Manager Sean Marks found success with low-risk reclamation projects such as D’Angelo Russell, Spencer Dinwiddie and Joe Harris. Brooklyn’s new-look coaching staff, led by first-time head coach Jordi Fernandez, will […]

The Brooklyn Nets opened training camp Tuesday, and with Ben Simmons healthy, there’s a position battle brewing at point guard. Unlike last season, when Jacque Vaughn named Simmons the starter before camp, head coach Jordi Fernandez said the job is up for grabs. That means Simmons will have to beat out veteran floor general Dennis […]

Betting odds are out ahead of the 2024-25 NBA season, and they are projecting the Brooklyn Nets will be the NBA’s worst team. After trading Mikal Bridges and pivoting to a rebuild, the Nets have an over/under win projection of 18.5, per FanDuel Sportsbook. Not only is it the lowest in the league this season, […]

The 2024-25 season is an audition year for the Brooklyn Nets. While general manager Sean Marks’ primary focus will be landing a top pick in next June’s draft, he’ll also need to identify which of Brooklyn’s young players fit his long-term vision. At the top of that list will be fourth-year guard Cam Thomas. After […]

The Brooklyn Nets were sellers in the 2024 offseason, trading away Mikal Bridges to the across-the-bridge rival New York Knicks. Entering the 2024-25 season, the Nets will be a young team, allowing their players to prove they should be a part of their core. Brooklyn will not be a contender in 2024 and likely won’t […]

Brooklyn Nets general manager Sean Marks revealed an honest goal for the organization entering year one of a rebuild. “We’re looking at it as, ‘Who are the next Nets?’ Who do we look at and say, ‘Ok, this person can be part of this rebuild, and this person is on the team for the next […]

Is Ben Simmons going to play during the 2024-25 NBA season for the Brooklyn Nets? Although Simmons’ availability has been thin over the last few seasons, the former first overall pick appears to be ready for the start of training camp after playing in only 15 games during the 2023-24 season. Simmons, a three-time All-Star, […]

The Brooklyn Nets enter the 2024-25 season with a new No. 1 offensive option: Cam Thomas. After cracking Brooklyn’s rotation for the first time last season, the 22-year-old led the team in scoring, averaging 22.5 points per game. That was an 11.9-point jump from the prior season, the highest of any player in the league. […]

Ben Simmons is officially cleared ahead of Brooklyn Nets training camp. But after undergoing his second back surgery in two years, is 2024-25 the season he can finally return to relevance? “Yeah, I certainly hope so for Ben’s sake,” general manager Sean Marks said Thursday. “You never want to see anybody have to go through […]

Kyrie Irving has found success with the Dallas Mavericks since joining the team via trade. However, he previously played for the Brooklyn Nets where drama surrounded his time with the team. One element of the drama was Irving being ruled ineligible to play early in the 2021-22 season due to New York City’s COVID-19 vaccine […]

Just days before the first day of training camp, the Brooklyn Nets will have their star guard Ben Simmons, even if he isn’t a perfect fit for this roster,  fully available with no restrictions to begin training camp on Tuesday, October 1. Simmons’ agent Bernie Lee confirmed the training camp news with NBA insider Chris […]

The Brooklyn Nets are signing Chinese star Yongxi “Jacky” Cui to a two-way contract, the team announced Friday. Cui played his last two seasons in the Chinese Basketball Association, averaging 14.1 points, 5.8 rebounds, and 2.9 assists on 45/36/81 shooting splits over 99 appearances. Before that, the 6-foot-6 forward attended the NBA’s Global Academy in […]

The past one and a half seasons have been tough for the Brooklyn Nets organization. Just as the Nets were hitting their stride in the post-James Harden era, Kevin Durant and Kyrie Irving decided to bail on the team, setting them on a downward spiral. The organization, after one year of trying to remain semi-competitive […]

Brooklyn Nets general manager Sean Marks is taking a page out of his old playbook as he enters his second rebuild. He’s taking chances on low-risk reclamation projects, and plenty of them. In his latest move, he signed Amari Bailey to an Exhibit 10 contract, first reported by HoopsHype’s Michael Scotto and confirmed by ClutchPoints, […]

The Brooklyn Nets will retire Vince Carter’s No. 15 jersey during a Jan. 25 home matchup with the Miami Heat, the team announced Thursday. “We are thrilled to honor former Nets player Vince Carter, who contributed so much to this organization both on and off the court,” said Nets owner Joe Tsai. “He is an […]

As the NBA season approaches, Hall-of-Famer Shaquille O’Neal has called out a plethora of players. This time, he went after Brooklyn Nets guard/forward Ben Simmons on a recent episode of The Big Podcast. “Ben is sensitive right,” O’Neal said. “He came in with a lot of hype, played nobody. When he got exposed, we saw […]

There are several staples of the NBA offseason: the draft, free agency, summer league, and… the Ben Simmons social media hype train. The Brooklyn Nets point guard has failed to regain his All-Star form since his messy exit from the Philadelphia 76ers, appearing in just 57 of 254 total games over the last three seasons. […]

Cam Thomas has had no problems scoring in bunches throughout his career. After setting the all-time scoring record at Oak Hill Academy, the shooting guard led all college freshmen in scoring during his lone season at LSU. Despite struggling to crack the Brooklyn Nets’ rotation during his first two seasons, he led the Summer League […]

Ben Simmons is back at it again, working on his jump shot during the offseason. Simmons is notorious for having the worst jump shot in the NBA. Despite being the Rookie of the Year in 2018 and achieving three All-Star selections during his time with the Philadelphia 76ers, Simmons didn’t acquire those accolades with his […]

The past three seasons have been a prolonged nightmare for Ben Simmons. A former All-Star and All-Defense Team member, Simmons’ stock has fallen off a cliff, thanks in large part to a combination of back problems and confidence issues. Now 28 years of age, Simmons has become emblematic of the Brooklyn Nets’ fall from a […]

The Brooklyn Nets were a Kevin Durant toe away from eliminating the eventual NBA champion Milwaukee Bucks in the 2021 Eastern Conference Semifinals. If that phenomenal two-point tying bucket becomes a heart-stopping 3-pointer, then history looks upon the Durant-Kyrie Irving-James Harden experiment much differently. Fast forward to the summer of 2024, and the Nets have […]

The Brooklyn Nets are turning the page to a new era in 2024-25. Owner Joe Tsai and General Manager Sean Marks committed to a full rebuild by trading Mikal Bridges to the New York Knicks and regaining control of their 2025 and 2026 first-round picks from the Houston Rockets. According to several NBA analysts, the […]

The Cleveland Cavaliers and Isaac Okoro agreed to a three-year, $38 million contract extension on Saturday, securing the Cavs’ starting frontcourt alongside center Jarrett Allen and Evan Mobley. Cleveland used its Bird Rights to extend Mobley’s rookie deal on a five-year, $224.3 million contract before Allen inked a three-year, $91 million extension in August. However, […]

The Brooklyn Nets trading Mikal Bridges to cross-town rival New York Knicks signaled the rebuild for a team looking to reset after the implosion of the Big Three of Kevin Durant, Kyrie Irving, and James Harden. While Ben Simmons hasn’t played meaningful minutes with them, they tried putting their cards on Bridges, but they realized […]

Not many NBA players will figure to have more of a green light this season than Brooklyn Nets guard Cam Thomas. The Nets unloaded small forward and leading scorer Mikal Bridges to the New York Knicks this offseason in exchange for mostly draft picks, meaning Thomas will take over even more of the reigns for […]

With the Brooklyn Nets’ 2024-25 season schedule released, a lot of eyes will be on the team. Ahead of the Nets 2024-25 season, we’ll be making our Nets season predictions. Brooklyn had an active offseason as they entered full rebuild mode, trading away Mikal Bridges. The Nets received a haul from the team across the […]

The Ben Simmons experiment has continued unabated in Brooklyn, New York with the former LSU Tigers college star and current Brooklyn Nets guard coming off of a season in which he scored just over six points per game while shooting a miserable 40 percent from the free-throw line. Simmons played in just 15 games, continuing […]

The Brooklyn Nets are promoting draft architect B.J. Johnson to assistant general manager, the team announced Wednesday. After joining the organization alongside general manager Sean Marks in 2016, Johnson quickly rose to director of player evaluation. He has led Brooklyn’s draft preparation for the last four seasons. The team has hit on several late picks […]

The still-rebuilding Brooklyn Nets are close to signing Yongxi “Jacky” Cui, a 6’8″ Chinese shooting guard, on a two-way contract. Nothing official has been reported yet, but Cui’s Weibo account (a Chinese social media app) recently started following a few Nets players, and some Chinese basketball X accounts hinted at the deal. Cui, just 21 […]

As Brooklyn Nets fans look forward to games for the upcoming season, there could be something else to look forward to when it comes to the 2025 free agency period. Among the possible free agents, Miami Heat star Jimmy Butler amidst his contract controversy could be a player that might be interested in Brooklyn as […]

The Boston Celtics went all out on returning their star players this summer, which didn’t leave much money for big splashes in free agency. Yet, Celtics President of Basketball Operations Brad Stevens worked his magic on a tight budget and landed former Brooklyn Nets guard Lonnie Walker IV on a one-year, Exhibit 10 contract, per […]

You’d be hard-pressed to find anyone in NBA circles who has a bad word to say about Steve Nash, the basketball player. Over the course of an 18-year NBA career, Nash won two MVP’s, made four appearances in the Western Conference Finals, led the league in assists per game five times, and played in eight […]

You might think it’s time to let the Brooklyn Nets off the hook for making the worst trade in NBA history back on Draft Night 2013, but think again — because this trade continues to cause fallout for all parties involved, and many even not directly involved, such as the Lakers’ somehow-still-not-really-aging superstar LeBron James. […]

Team USA basketball cruised to a gold medal at the 2024 Paris Olympics and Kevin Durant played a massive part. The Phoenix Suns star also took a shot at Dennis Schroder’s FIBA comments after beating France in the final, tweeting “Entertainment and high IQ”. The Brooklyn Nets guard, who was playing for Germany, previously said […]

After doing everything in his power to make the Brooklyn Nets into the sort of team that can attract star players like James Harden, Kevin Durant, and Kyrie Irving, Cam Thomas finds himself looking a lot like the Will Smith empty room meme, with even Mikal Bridges opting to leave BK for the brighter light […]

At this point of his career, it might be safe to say that Ben Simmons is an enigma. Fans might think he’s already on the down-slope of his career, thanks to the injuries and missed games, but he is still 28 years old, which is the start of most players’ prime athletic years. Still, it’s […]

It appears that the saga involving Dennis Schroder and Kevin Durant is not over. Schroder, who played for Germany at the recently concluded 2024 Paris Olympics, has called out Durant for the latter’s apparent response to the former’s take on NBA basketball. “You’re that type of a star, and you have to say something to […]

Was Kyrie Irving always destined to end up with the Dallas Mavericks? During a recent appearance on The Knicks Film School Podcast, Tim MacMahon of ESPN said that if Jalen Brunson had re-signed with the Mavs following the 2021-22 season, he may have been involved in a trade to the Brooklyn Nets for Irving, via […]

It has been more than three years since the Brooklyn Nets have won a playoff game and more than 20 since they have reached the Eastern Conference Finals. Head-scratching management decisions and devastating injury troubles consistently define this franchise, to the point where it can be difficult to drum up support among casual basketball fans. […]