{"id":193632,"date":"2025-10-06T18:51:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-06T18:51:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/193632\/"},"modified":"2025-10-06T18:51:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-06T18:51:07","slug":"bobby-marks-brooklyn-nets-may-not-be-done-dealing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/193632\/","title":{"rendered":"Bobby Marks: Brooklyn Nets may not be done dealing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Sean Marks seemingly hinted that the Brooklyn Nets may be done with salary dumps, telling New Zealand\u2019s Sport Nation last month that \u201cwe haven\u2019t used all of four cap space. We don\u2019t intend to right now.\u201d But that second sentence offered some wiggle room. He doesn\u2019t \u201cintend\u201d to \u201cright now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">And ESPN\u2019s Bobby Marks \u2014 no relation other than they\u2019ve both drawn paychecks from the Nets \u2014 thinks that Sean Marks could indeed wind up doing something before October 21, the date teams need to finalize their rosters. For the Nets, it\u2019s also the deadline to meet the minimum salary requirement, 90% of the salary cap, or face sanctions. including forfeiting their share of end-of-season luxury tax payouts and having a \u201cfrozen\u201d cap hold added to their payroll. The first one is basically meaningless in the larger sense of things but the second is not something GMs want to deal with.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Meeting the so-called salary floor could be what drives the Nets final moves, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/story\/_\/id\/46501533\/nba-trade-guide-how-14-teams-approach-2025-26-season-warriors-lakers-mavericks\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bobby Marks writes in a summary<\/a> of 14 teams to watch as that deadline approaches.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1teeyfa8 ls9zuh1\">Though the space has shrunk with the trades of Michael Porter Jr., Terance Mann, Haywood Highsmith and Kobe Bufkin, Brooklyn still has over $13 million in room and its $8.8 million room midlevel exception (the two cannot be combined) to be active in trade discussions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The former Nets assistant GM says as of the moment, the Nets are above the floor, but if they waive the three players with team options \u2014 Jalen Wilson, Tyrese Martin and Drew Timme \u2014 they\u2019ll be under it once again.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1teeyfa8 ls9zuh1\">The Nets already have 15 players on guaranteed contracts, and the three aforementioned players have a combined $6.2 million in non-guaranteed salary.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">What\u2019s a GM to do? Bobby Marks thinks one route would be to trade for a player.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1teeyfa8 ls9zuh1\">If the three are waived before Oct. 20, Brooklyn would need to trade for a player earning more than $4 million.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">That, of course, would reduce the amount of cap space the Nets would take into the trade deadline, where they will still have more space than any other team. There are indeed possibilities, including another salary dump despite what Sean Marks said. Bobby Marks notes that several teams may want to get under the luxury tax threshold or the two aprons. The Knicks he notes may need to trade either Tyler Kolek or Pacome Dadiet by the 21st. Dadiet, a 6\u20198\u201d 20-year-old wing is being paid $2.8 million this year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">There are other teams looking to make late moves as well so expect one more busy weekend before the games begin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sean Marks seemingly hinted that the Brooklyn Nets may be done with salary dumps, telling New Zealand\u2019s Sport&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":193633,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,459,96394,96395,82],"class_list":["post-193632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nba","tag-nets-rumors","tag-nets-trade-rumors","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193632","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193632"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193632\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/193633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}