It is a maxim among the fans of Brooklyn Nets that Sean Marks will make a movement in the draft. Either a few days before Adam Silver took the podium or a few days later, the GM of Nets has always been active. Eight times during his nine years to direct the Nets, he has concluded offers … both large and small.
Some were transformers such as the professions of last year with the Houston Rockets and New York Knicks or the Sweep Clean or Brook Lopez and Kyle Kuzma for the Lakers of Angelo Russell. Others were small, like a salary dump to find an additional space for the acquisition of Kevin Durant and Kyrie Irving. But two nights stand out when you look at the potential from June 25 to 26 of this year at Barclays Center.
In 2016, the morning of his first draft as GM, Marks exchanged Thaddeus Young, one of his only NBA quality players, for the 20th choice in the first round he used on Caris Lever. Then in the second round, he used several million dollars of Mikhail Prokhorov to go up 13 places in the second round to take the local product Isaiah Whitehead.
Five years later, the nets seemed to be locked in Day’ron Sharpe at n ° 27. Then, at the beginning of the evening of the draft, they exchanged Landry Shamet to the Suns for Jevon Carter and the 29th choice, allowing them to write not only Sharpe, but also Cam Thomas.
Why do these movements resonate now, Brooklyn holding the rights of the 8th, 19th, 26th, 27th and 26th choice in what is considered a generational project which has the additional advantage of being deep? Because at least the fans were disappointed by the position of the draft of the Nets, falling from the sixth best dimensions to the eighth, putting them out of the range for many best hopes.
So, in this spirit, the gears of the commercial machine are crushed and more of one expert thinks that it has the solution: exchange. It’s time to work on phones, Mr. Marks?
In the past two days, two journalists who cover the nets have offered their taking on the possibility of another big movement.
In the scenarios, offered by Steve Lichtenstein on Friday and Erik Slater followed a prohibited path on Thursday: Cam Johnson is considered the ideal piece for any draft agreement. The 6’8 ”striker comes from this better season, not only in terms of statistics, but in terms of his expanding matches. He could be someone candidate could be interested, the last piece.
Lichtenstein offered his reflections on Steve’s newsletter. While as we have noted before, a number of people think they are using CJ as a lure to attract the 76ers in an agreement where the nets deal with Johnson and one or two of their five choices for choice n ° 3 and some of the expensive contracts weighing the hopes of the eliminatory series in Philly.
Lichtenstein asks why “waste” all this capital on “the defective AS Bailey” or VJ Edgecombe. Instead, he suggests that Brooklyn and Marks think bigger. Opt for the choice n ° 2 and the most probably sure thing of everyone, the teammate of Bailey’s Rutgers, Dylan Harper!
San Antonio already has 2023 All-Star from’aron Fox and 2025 recruit of the year Stephon Castle to act as the main ball tickets. Even if Chris Paul enters a free agency, is Harper best suited that they can design with such a main choice?
If I was in charge of the two clubs, I could Consider the following:
Nets Get: No. 2 Globally, Keldon Johnson
Spurs Get: Cam Johnson, n ° 8 and n ° 27, and a second round in 2026
Johnson, who is two years and $ 43 million reasonable dollars in his team, seems very stimulating, thinks that Lichtenstein. “A top three -level scorer who has experience in the NBA final” (with the Suns.) Harper, on the other hand, would give the net a main goalkeeper for the future and one with the quality of the stars (and an interior address in the New York region.)
Slater clutch points – The only writer beaten to attend the combination of the NBA draft, notes that BJ Johnson, the deputy GM Nets and the man in charge of the Nets draft in the past five years, have alluded to the possibility of trades in his appearance in his appearance in his appearance in his appearance in his appearance in SCOUTThe Docussians of Nets on the project.
“The project is so unpredictable. You never know what will happen,” quotes Slater Johnson SCOUT. “The choices are exchanged, the players are exchanged, the situations are constantly changing. So you have to approach the project in the same way. Gather all the information, be able to understand who is a player and who he will be for your organization.”
This quote can indeed be general – and it was recorded last September, but Slater as Lichtenstein, thinks that the nets would benefit at least from considering the Council. Like Lichtenstein, Harper is a Grand Prix, but he also writes about Philly’s choice at No. 3 and his intriguing position in the future.
Philadelphia juggles two deadlines after working well below expectations during a 2024-25 campaign, ravaged by injuries. One revolves around Joel Embiid, 31, and Paul George, 35, while the other focuses on Tyrese Maxey, 24, and Jared McCain, 21. If Daryl Morey is determined to maximize the Embiid title window, he could use the choice n ° 3 to acquire winning parts rather than waiting for several years for a 19 -year -old.
Beyond these scenarios, others do not involve players or salary discharges, perhaps packaging, alias consolidate n ° 8 and 19 to climb a little higher.
Of course, as Lichtenstein writes, all this is done without the advantage of knowledge of the initiates, in other words, it is a “funny speculation”.
Who do Marks and Johnson like? I don’t know. Who did they fall in love if someone? I don’t know. What other scenarios could they consider, perhaps bringing together some of their future choices? I don’t know.
At this point, it is a fairly good bet that their desire for their hearts is one of these players, putting aside Cooper Flagg with whom the Mavericks do not even think of separating. There is Harper and Bailey, Edgecombe, Tre Johnson, Jeremiah Fears, Kon Knueppel, Noa Esssengue or Khaman Maluach. It’s nine players. So one of them will be almost certainly available if the nets keep the eighth choice. It’s not a bad way to look at things. And of course, Marks and Johnson can look at their five choices and think that it is a deep project; We are forced to leave with a lot of talent.
It is academic for the moment, but when the Sean Marks commercial area opens on June 23, do not be surprised if things happen … again.
