Brooklyn Nets: 2025 Offseason Priorities and Salary Cap Dynamics
I examine Brooklyn's various cap space projections, the market for their restricted free agents, and their options on how to spend their cap space.
The Brooklyn Nets have completed the first year of their rebuild and are set to have the 8th selection in the upcoming draft. This would be their best selection since having 3rd overall in 2010 and their first lottery selection since then. They’ve conveyed six lottery picks since then through various trades and swaps, but now regain control of their selections in the future.
The Nets also project to be the only team with significant cap space this offseason. The optionality has sparked discussion on their motivations for it. Do they want to aggressively pursue All-Stars with their flexibility and surplus of draft picks? Or should they stay the course and see through the rebuild they initiated last year?
Brian Lewis joined the podcast a couple of weeks ago to discuss the Nets and their upcoming offseason. We discussed why they’ll likely continue rebuilding, how they could trade up in the draft, and if they’ll seriously consider making offers to restricted free agents. It’s a good companion piece for this preview, which will focus on salary cap dynamics. This will dive deeper into the Nets’ cap space projection, how they could utilize it, and how their restricted free agents factor in.