Bobby Marks: ‘The 2025 offseason runs through Brooklyn’
With the most draft picks, most cap space (and a record of spending,) Brooklyn Nets look like lynchpin for 2025 off-season, reports Bobby Marks. Online and on video, Bobby Marks cites the Nets rebuild as one of the “top 10 things to watch in 2025” noting that Brooklyn can “certainly rebound fairly quickly.” Starting at 7:45 in...
In his update on “the storylines that will dominate the 2025 offseason and what impact big moves could make on the upcoming season,” ESPN insider (and former Nets assistant GM) Bobby Marks writes that the Brooklyn Nets could “control” the 2025 off-season with their draft assets and cap space.
Marks, in looking at a number of themes around the league, doesn’t mince words about how much he thinks the Nets already have a grip on a lot of the traditional levers teams use to get back on track, stating, “Yes, the 2025 offseason runs through Brooklyn.”
The trade to reacquire their 2025 first-round pick from Houston (that also eliminated swap rights in 2026) and the deal that sent Mikal Bridges to the Knicks for an unprecedented five first-round picks indicates Brooklyn is willing to bottom out and enter this season in a full scale rebuild.
That thinking, however, could change next summer.
Brooklyn has a projected $70 million in cap space to go along with a league-high four first-round picks in the June 2025 draft, including a likely high lottery pick.
It doesn’t end there either, he argues.
The Nets’ flexibility could further increase if they trade forwards Dorian Finney-Smith and Cameron Johnson this season. Finney-Smith has a $15.4 million player option and could be a free agent in 2025. Johnson has two years and $43 million remaining after this season.
All told, the Nets currently have 17 first round picks and one first round swap through 2032 ... the farthest out picks can be traded this summer. Of the 17, 10 are either the Nets own picks or unprotected picks from other teams, primarily the Knicks. They also have 12 second rounders going forward.
And as he notes, Brooklyn seemingly has confidence in its ability to do what they did between February 2016, when Sean Marks took over from Billy King, Bobby Marks former boss, and June 2019, the Clean Sweep. Bobby quotes Sean on not just the assets but the attractiveness of the New York market ... and the need to be patient.
“I think we have to be patient, you know, we’re not going to be in a hurry, “ Nets general manager Sean Marks said about the team’s rebuilding process in July.
“But I do think being in this market, with this amount of draft assets, we’ve done it before. And so again, I think, not that it’s going to be expedited by any means, but I don’t think it’s a long process, either.”
Bobby Marks also notes that the Nets are not the only team currently holding multiple 2025 first-round picks. Combine their four with Oklahoma City (3), Utah (3), San Antonio (2), Orlando (2) amounting to nearly half of the picks in the first round.
However, he also points out that unlike 2019 when the Nets signed Kevin Durant, Kyrie Irving and DeAndre Jordan outright, the 2025 free agency pool is quite shallow.
Do not expect to see a mass exodus of players entering free agency and then signing outright with another team that has cap space. Out of 30 notable stars who would be considered playing at starting level or better, 25 are either: restricted free agents, have a player or team option, or are eligible to sign an extension.
There is the possibility of trades using a lot of those assets (and the second biggest trade exception in the NBA, valued at $23.3 million.) June is a long, long time away off and as the Nets recent history has shown, a lot can happen between then and now.
2025 NBA free agency: What’s next for LeBron, Curry, Doncic? ($) - Bobby Marks - ESPN
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