The Brooklyn Nets are here primarily because they’re the one team with the cap space necessary to blow that $7.2 million Detroit can offer out of the water.
It doesn’t seem likely that Brooklyn would get this high for Beasley, but it has just over $20 million in space to play with.
And in an Eastern Conference that could be laughably bad in 2025-26 (thanks in large part to torn Achilles tendons for Tyrese Haliburton and Jayson Tatum), lineups with Beasley, Michael Porter Jr., Terance Mann and Nic Claxton could be, at the very least, fascinating.
But even that is probably better than the Nets should want to be. They control their first-round pick in 2026, so adding helpful veterans shouldn’t be a top priority.
This season needs to be about the development of the host of incoming rookies, including Egor Demin, Nolan Traore and Ben Saraf.