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What a difference a year makes.
Following the first round of the 2025 NBA Draft, Sean Marks faced, through a screen, bewildered media simply trying to make sense of what the hell had just happened. The Brooklyn Nets not only did not trade any of their five first-round picks, but, judging by consensus, reached on plenty of prospects. The first season of tanking had come and gone without an exciting swing to show for it. Consensus can be and is often wrong, but after June 25, 2025, the Nets felt like a franchise gone haywire.
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On the morning of June 24, 2026, the Nets are a franchise ready to face the day. They have not been handed ideal circumstances. The road ahead is not going to be easy. But cautious optimism is warranted.
Brooklyn took Mikel Brown Jr. at #6 overall, a prospect they were heavily linked to in the days leading up to the draft but by no means the safe option. He missed a handful of games at Louisville with a bad back, posted a 45.7 eFG% against top 50 NCAA teams, didn’t play much defense, and struggled to protect the ball. But one look at the highlight tape — full of strong finishes, whirlwind passes, and pull-ups from another county — lights a fire…
Jordi Fernández has squeezed more than he had any right to out of his guards over the last couple seasons, providing Shake Milton an NBA swan song, Dennis Schröder the best stretch of his career, and Nolan Traore (perhaps the league’s worst scorer as a rookie) weeks of decent production. Now, Fernández has Mikel Brown Jr.
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When asked what stood out about the 20-year-old, Sean Marks said: “Just how dynamic of a player he is. A playmaker, a scorer, the pace with which he played the game. I think he’s a cerebral player, has really great feel, and just excited to get a guy like that who has some intangible skills as well. When you look how athletic he is, as I mentioned before, the speed with which he can play, those things translate to our league. And then you get to meet the guy, you know, and he really has a chip on his shoulder, he really has something to prove, and I think those are some of the things that…
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Publish date : 2026-06-24 10:03:00
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