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The NBA Combine is over. Agents’ pro days too. Chicago is in the past. Next come workouts and interviews which are likely underway. The process has a long way to go with the 2026 NBA Draft still five weeks away at the end of June. In meantime, all we have is mock drafts which at this point are mainly entertainment.
All that said, there is a creeping belief that the Nets have at least some interest in Mikal Brown Jr., the 6’5” Louisville combo guard whose prospects have gotten better with both a solid performance in Chicago, particularly at his pro day workout Thursday. Also concerns about his back injury which laid him low this past season have dissipated.
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The Nets level of interest of course is a closely held secret or more likely still forming. The Nets despite the devastating drop in the Lottery five days ago, have a lot of options: they can move up, move down, add another first or in the most unlikely scenario move up into the top four where the franchise-changers they crave reside.
Brian Lewis on Friday suggested that indeed things remain unsettled but Brown has to be considered. Indeed, in the most recent mock, Bleacher Report’s Jonathan Wasserman has the Nets taking the 20-year-old Orlando native.
Whispers going around the combine suggest Nets general manager Sean Marks is open to moving up or down from the No. 6 spot. But if he stands pat, with the Nets having failed to land a top-four pick, there is a chance Brown — who dealt with a back injury as a freshman — has as much untapped talent as anybody else in the class.
Brown likes the possibility of moving to Brooklyn which has a basically a blank canvas.
“It would be a great opportunity right there,” Brown told Lewis. “Just continuing to build relationships with them as the time goes on and continue to talk to my family and my circle and my agent and the people behind me.
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“It’s something that we’re definitely interested in, and looking forward to building a relationship with [the Nets].”
He noted that he met with the Nets contingent in Chicago but has yet to set up a meeting in Brooklyn.
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