The Brooklyn Nets still have some cap space to work with after an offseason of taking five players in the 2025 NBA Draft and trading for players like forward Michael Porter Jr. Brooklyn still has to figure out what they’re going to do with guard Cam Thomas, who remains unsigned, but the franchise is still keeping its options open heading into the 2025-26 season.

“Brooklyn will continue to operate as a salary-dumping destination and/or three-team facilitator in hopes of stockpiling more draft capital,” NBA insider Jake Fischer wrote for The Stein Line Substack. Essentially, the Nets have been using their trades this summer to take on players that would eat up some of Brooklyn’s salary cap in exchange for extra compensation from their trade partners.

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For example, when Brooklyn acquired Porter from the Denver Nuggets, the deal was in exchange for forward Cam Johnson, who was coming off his best season in the league. Not only did the Nets get Porter in the deal, but they also got a 2032 first-round pick from the Nuggets, an asset that could be valuable either in the future if Denver ends up rebuilding by then or could serve a purpose long before the pick conveys.

At this point in free-agency, there aren’t any marquee free-agents on the market and the notable players presumably available are the restricted free-agents like Thomas that are having trouble getting the deals they want. In that vein, Brooklyn could still bring in players from other teams, such as when they acquired forward Haywood Highsmith from the Miami Heat, if it means that the Nets will be getting draft compensation as part of the transaction.

Time will tell if Brooklyn continues to make trades where they rent out the cap space they have left because they still have to re-sign Thomas along with deciding how they’re going to re-sign forward Ziaire Williams and center Day’Ron Sharpe, among others. The Nets are the only team in the league with cap space remaining so if there is any movement to be had in the NBA moving forward, it will most likely include Brooklyn for that reason alone.

This article originally appeared on Nets Wire: Report: Nets expected to continue looking to get more draft capital