Erik Slater of Clutch Points<\/a> Saturday.<\/p>\n\u201cIn terms of his game, I really like the feel for the game. I buy him as a shooter long-term. I think he plays a very direct game, makes very quick decisions, likes to drive in straight lines. I think he\u2019s one of those dudes that always profiled to me as somebody who plays really well both on and off the ball.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat ability to shift where you can be the 6\u20194\u201d point guard next to a star or you can be the off-guard playing next to a primary point guard. That was kind of my vision for him as a player, and I thought he would play really well next to stars because of how well-rounded that game was. Whether or not that bears itself out, we\u2019ll find out. But home run for the Nets to go for it. I think that he\u2019s worth a flier for them.\u201d<\/p>\n
Indeed, despite his relative youth and inexperience, the 6\u20194\u201d guard is likely to get his chances in Brooklyn which currently have only three 19-year-olds who play the point: Egor Demin, Nolan Traore and Ben Saraf.<\/p>\n
Also, Marks and co. will a maximum of nine games – four preseason and five in regular season – to gauge long-term value. Brooklyn must decide by October 31 whether to extend him (as well as Dariq Whitehead and Noah Clowney) through 2026-27, the $6.9 million investment that Vecenie mentioned.
He played well this Summer in Las Vegas for the Hawks in his first fully healthy tour with Atlanta.<\/p>\n
Bufkin averaged 19.5 points – with a high game of 29; 5.2 rebounds, 4.2 assists and a steal for Atlanta across four appearances. That 19.5 point scoring average was eighth in Summer League. He still has work to do on his 3-point shooting, never hitting 30% in either his limited time in RJ\u2019s NBA or Summer League.<\/p>\n
The Nets have not said anything about how they see his told but it certainly appears that they have plans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kobe Bufkin turns 22 Sunday, making him the eighth youngest Net going into 2025-26. Only the Flatbush 5,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":157254,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,590,49466,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-157253","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-nba","11":"tag-nets-free-agency","12":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=157253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157253\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/157254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}