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With five days left till Thursday’s 3:00 p.m. ET trade deadline, the Brooklyn Nets have:
the youngest roster in the NBA, the average a little more 23 games:
four of the 20 youngest players in the league, the sixth (Nolan Traore), eighth (Ben Saraf), 11th (Egor Demin), and 19th (Drake Powell) plus two 21-year-olds who like them are on a rookie deal( Noah Clowney and Danny Wolf);
A total of as many as 32 draft picks going forward, most in the league, including 13 firsts, 10 of which are tradeable immediately;
Likely a high lottery pick in the loaded 2026 Draft, plus as many as three mid-to-high second rounders:
$15.3 million in cap space through the start of free agency, still the most in the NBA, then perhaps as much as $48.8 million next season, per Keith Smith. Still top three or four.
Michael Porter Jr., Nic Claxton, Day-Ron Sharpe;
An ownership group (the Tsai and Koch families) who have a combined net worth of $95 billion;
Oh yeah, they play in New York City.
Alas, they also have only 12 wins.
Do you really believe that all those assets, all that flexibility, the Nets won’t play some role in the Giannis Antetokuonmpo trade speculation? The front office and ownership are going to dismiss the possibility of acquiring a top 5 player, even with injury and contract issues? They didn’t sacrifice the past two years without fantasizing about Giannis in black-and-white!
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We don’t know but in the past few days, the Nets have nudged their way into the Greek Freakout (trademark pending) conversation, either as a facilitator — friend with draft picks, so to speak — to an actual suitor for the 31-year-old who’s won two MVPs and the Finals MVP.
Brian Lewis spoke with two (serious) league officials who suggested that they believe the Nets are in it to win it.
“The Nets make a lot of sense for him,” one Eastern Conference assistant GM told The Post. “They have some good future picks. [They] could, in theory, trade five future picks, keep this year’s pick, shut him down for the year? Tank?”
The GM said he believes that if there is a deal, the actual parameters would fall outside the speculation ……
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