Apparently five is enough…
After making five first round picks Wednesday, the Brooklyn Nets have apparentl decided they’re done for 2025 with Shams Charania reporting Thursday afternoon that they are trading their second round pick at No. 36 to the Phoenix Suns for two future seconds in 2026.
The Brooklyn Nets are trading the No. 36 pick in tonight’s NBA Draft to the Phoenix Suns for two future second-round picks, sources tell ESPN. Suns now own Nos. 36, 52 and 59.
— Shams Charania (@ShamsCharania) June 26, 2025
Mike Scotto had the details…
Update: The Phoenix Suns are trading a 2026 second-round pick that’s the least favorable between LAC and the most favorable of MIA, IND, BOS along with a 2030 Boston Celtics second-round pick to the Brooklyn Nets for the No. 36 pick in the 2025 NBA Draft, sources told @hoopshype.
— Michael Scotto (@MikeAScotto) June 26, 2025
The Nets now have a first and three seconds in next year’s draft expected to be at least as strong as this year’s.
The Nets had acquired the pick in the trade for Mikal Bridges last year. The pick had originally been Brooklyn’s but was traded to Atlanta in the 2018 Jeremy Lin salary dump, then traded to the Knicks in the 2022 Kevin Knox salary dump before being returned to the Nets.
The trade leaves the Nets with their five firsts:
-#8: Egor Demin, 6’9” point guard from BYU and Russia;
-#19: Nolan Traore, 6’4” point guard from Saint-Quinton in France;
#22: Drake Powell, 6’6” wing from North Carolina;
#26: Ben Saraf, 6’6” point guard from Ratiopharm Ulm in Germany and Israel.
#27: Danny Wolf, 7’0” center from Michigan who holds both U.S. and Israeli citizenry.
The second round will feature a number of players previously mocked to the Nets in the first round including Rasheer Fleming, a 6’9” PF from St. Joseph’s; Noah Penda, a 6’6” wing from LeMans in France, Bogoljub Markovic, a 6’11” PF from MegaBasket in Serbiaand Maxime Reynaud, a 7’1” C from Stanford and France.
The second round begins at Barclays Center in Brooklyn Thursday at 8:00 p.m. ET.
In other news, the Nets will not be holding media availability Friday to introduce their five picks, apparently in an effort to gather all of them together. Saraf played Thursday in Ulm, Germany, playing his worst game of the season, scoring on two points on 1-of-6 scoring in 11 minutes of play. Ulm lost in the fith and final game of the Bundesliga championship. Ulm was hurt when after game 3 of the series, Noa Essengue, Saraf’s teammate and the 12th pick in the Draft, left Ulm to head to New York for the Draft. Saraf remained in Ulm.