Brooklyn Nets announce ‘SCOUT’, a look at how they’re approaching 2025 NBA Draft

The new documentary series will give Nets fans an inward look at the team we’re not accustomed to seeing

Turns out, the guys actually making the picks this June are really excited about it too.

This morning, the Brooklyn Nets announced SCOUT, a nine-part documentary focused on the team’s preparations for the 2025 NBA Draft. For anyone who’s been living under a rock for…yeah, almost a year now, the Nets have four first round picks in the draft as well as a second, giving them the most top-40 draft capital of any team.

The first episode won’t drop till Tuesday, but the Nets gave us all a quick look at the production with a trailer Monday…

For a team that often keeps things buttoned up, the trailer and final production promise to captivate casual fans and analysts, whether self-appointed or not, equally and extensively. While the Nets have a history of making in-house productions that allow fans to take a closer look at the franchise with The Bridge, this project appears to focus more on the scouting department rather than the active team, hence the name.

With that said, sources tell NetsDaily there will be no footage included from draft prospect workouts, nor lists made available of who Brooklyn’s had in for them. There are limits.

But from what we can tell via the trailer, the documentary will take us inside meetings and in front of interviews with shot callers in the front office. Stylistically, it looks similar to Hard Knocks: Offseason with the New York Giants. (I don’t think its possible for the Nets, or anyone for that matter, to have as bad of a season after the GMen did last year but knock on some wood just in case.)

The trailer largely features B.J. Johnson, Sean Marks, and Jordi Fernández. Joe Tsai even made a cameo about two-thirds of the way into the promo, seen chatting with Marks who points in the distance, perhaps at the Nets top-secret Big Board. Also seen were vice presidents for strategic planning, Makar Gevorkian the Nets capologist, and basketball analytics, Glenn DuPaul, and a number of veteran scouts. The Nets have one of the biggest if not the biggest scouting staff in the NBA.

The Brooklyn GM, to no surprise, seemed quite cognizant of how important this summer is for the franchise.

“This ain’t coming around again,” he said at one point. “This comes around once. I’m talking once in a lifetime … We know exactly what’s at stake and we’ve got to get it right.”

At one point, Marks remarked that his search for potential new Nets included a trip to Australia’s Gold Coast last year and he’s seen personally scouting 6’8” Sydney Kings wing Alex Toohey at the NBL’s Blitz back in September.

The Eiffel Tower, a set of Spanish flags, and a Nanterre 92 basketball court were also shown in flashes, hinting that parts of the doc will follow Nets scouts as they checked out prospects in France and Spain. Simone Casali, the Nets international scouting director, was shown briefly at a French game while Johnson and another scout were seen boarding a Spanish train.

There other shots of Johnson and Marks at games as well as a recent meeting of veteran scouts at HSS Training Center.

Jonathan Givony, ESPN’s long-time draft guru, Jonathan Givony, also spoke in the doc, saying, “They do a lot of work behind the scenes to make sure they know everything about these players and they want to know is this a person they want to invest in.”

It also featured some charming Brooklyn B-roll footage, along with a soundbite from Johnson explaining the team’s plans to “rebuild in a way that highlights Brooklyn, and our culture, and our organization.”

Johnson also said something that might give fans a view into the rebuild.

“To get this draft right and to really nail it — not only for the talent level that’s in it, but the type of people that we really want,” said Johnson. “We don’t look at it as a one time thing. This could set us up for the next 10 years of this organization. So to me personally, we get these next three years right, we’re in a really good position.”

Indeed, there’s a new sense of wanting to push the product. They know fans aren’t going to just tune into a 26-win team for no reason.

The first episode releases tomorrow, May 6th, at noon (EST) on Brooklyn’s official Youtube page.