With 13 tradeable first-round picks, 17 tradeable second-round picks and $91.8 million in projected sensible cap house, the Nets are in place to do nearly no matter they need this summer season.
And if the precise alternative presents itself, common supervisor Sean Marks is ready to go “all in”.
“The summer is when we do our work,” Marks stated. “And that goes across the board for the whole organization, the front office does its work for the draft and free agency and so forth, and roster building. But also, players, player development, player and coach development; those relationships start in the offseason.”
Brooklyn ranked twenty sixth in NET score, twenty eighth in offensive score and twenty third in defensive score final season, ending 26-56, the sixth-worst file within the league. The franchise now awaits its full draft positioning, which might be revealed throughout the draft lottery in Chicago on Could 12.
The Nets’ personal first-round choose has a 37.2% likelihood of touchdown within the High 4 and a 9% likelihood of rising to No.1 total. Their first-round choose through Milwaukee might land anyplace from 18-20, decided by coin-flips. And their different first-round picks through Knicks and Houston are locked in at No. 26 and No. 27, respectively.
Chatting with reporters throughout Monday’s exit interviews in Brooklyn, Marks was requested about his gross sales pitch to potential free brokers. He didn’t reply the query fully however stated any pitch begins with head coach Jordi Fernandez, who enters his first full summer season with the workforce after lacking time final summer season whereas teaching Crew Canada within the Olympics.
“It’s a competitive environment out there,” Marks stated. “Every day at practice, every shootaround Jordi is expecting and demanding the most from you, and nobody leaves that game, practice, shootaround going, ‘I’m not sure where I stand.’ I think that’s super important for us. The market speaks for itself, right? Our ownership group speaks for itself. So, we’re very fortunate to be able to go all in at the right time. We’ve done it before. We’ve done it several times. Would we do it again? I think Joe [Tsai] is sitting there going at the right time, you give me the word, and we’ll go.”
The Nets enter the offseason with an opportunistic mindset, afforded by the monetary flexibility they maintained all through the season and a plethora of belongings. They will construct by the draft. They will chase stars like Giannis Antetokounmpo, ought to they develop into accessible. Or they’ll do each. As an alternative of being reactive to the free agent market, they’ve set themselves as much as management it.
“In this market we’re always going to have various different free agents and opportunities thrown at us, just simply being in a top five market in the league; that’s going to happen,” Marks stated. “We don’t need to get sped up. We’ve talked a number of occasions about being systematic and strategic in how we construct right here.
“There’s a lot of cap room at stake. And how we use that, it’s probably too early to determine. But there’s a variety of different pathways we can go on. And it’s just about being opportunistic as to how we build and when we go all in again, so to speak. And that could be going all in with whether it’s free agents or trades, but it also could be go all-in with systematically growing some homegrown talent. And we’ve done that in the past and grown some guys here, developed some guys here as well and attracted top tier talent from elsewhere.”
