What will determine when Nets get aggressive with trade assets

Whatever incremental improvements the Nets have made, they’ve been made without touching the league’s biggest cache of assets.

What will determine when GM Sean Marks finally cashes some of them in?

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How quickly their young players develop, and what star becomes available.

Brooklyn Nets’ Egor Demin speaks to members of the media during Media Day at HSS Training Center in Brooklyn, N.Y., Monday, Sept. 28, 2026. Corey Sipkin for the NY POST

“Internally, it’s going to be on how the [young Nets] develop, right?” Marks said. “Whether it’s Egor [Dëmin], whether it’s Nolan [Traore] … it runs the gamut, across the whole lot of them. Who can take that next step? And we’ll get a good feel for, ‘OK, he’s playing above where expectations were,’ or, ‘He’s developed earlier than we may have thought.’ But it’s also a combination of what becomes available.

“So you keep your flexibility. … We’re always listening. I’m not sure we’re going to be any more active than we’ve been in the past, but it doesn’t mean we’re not listening. It doesn’t mean we’re not shaking trees and seeing what’s out there, for sure. So a lot will be predicated first and foremost on what this roster looks like, and we’ll get a good feel for that pretty good.”

Brooklyn Nets’ Danny Wolf, left, and Nolan Traore speak to members of the media during Media Day at HSS Training Center in Brooklyn, N.Y., Monday, Sept. 28, 2026. Corey Sipkin for the NY POST

Of those aforementioned youngsters, rookie Mikel Brown Jr. rolled his left ankle last week but is recovering and back out on the court on a limited basis.

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“Yeah, I’m doing everything possible to get back on the floor,” Brown said. “I’m back on the floor shooting and moving around a little bit. It’s coming along well. I’ve progressed very fast. We’re just attacking it. We’re attacking the rehab and taking it a day at a time.”

Traore and Grant Nelson are both cleared to start camp after they missed Summer League, the former fully recovered from a right knee procedure and the latter back from a postseason knee procedure and early leg woes.

“Physically, those guys are ready for camp,” Marks said….

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Publish date : 2026-09-29 14:11:00

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