{"id":128795,"date":"2025-09-03T03:52:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-03T03:52:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/128795\/"},"modified":"2025-09-03T03:52:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T03:52:09","slug":"where-are-they-now-brooklyn-nets-in-new-places-in-2025-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/128795\/","title":{"rendered":"Where are They Now? Brooklyn Nets in New Places in 2025-26"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Brooklyn Nets 2025 offseason has been a rather quiet one. But despite many predicting that the team would not go deep sea fishing for free agents, even with $60+ Million to use as bait, it\u2019s also somehow been an unexpected one. It\u2019s now September and Cam Thomas remains unsigned. Brooklyn also added five rookies to the team via the draft \u2014 something never done before in NBA history.<\/p>\n

Regardless of the situation, this team always finds a way to be, well, just weird.<\/p>\n

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However, just because no household names came into Brooklyn\u2019s this summer, and they\u2019ve hung their best young player out to dry, it doesn\u2019t mean there hasn\u2019t been movement. Having played the eager salesmen role now for a second consecutive summer and the trade deadline before it, there\u2019s an abundance of Nets who were on the roster last year that now find themselves in new places. Here\u2019s a quick catch-up on who\u2019s gone where.<\/p>\n

The Big Ones<\/p>\n

Cameron Johnson is probably the guy here you already know about. The Nets traded him to the Denver Nuggets for an unprotected 2032 first-round pick and Michael Porter Jr. in early July. Even with MPJ having yet to play a game for Brooklyn, his tenure is already caked in controversy with several clips of him making off-color comments<\/a> going viral this summer.<\/p>\n

Other bigger names on the move include Dorian Finney-Smith, who opted out of his deal with the Los Angeles Lakers to join forces with Ime Udoka and Kevin Durant in Houston. D\u2019Angelo Russell aslso left again, this time on his own accord, signing as a free agent with the Dallas Mavericks.<\/p>\n

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After bouncing from the Golden State Warriors to the Detroit Pistons after the Nets shipped him out last December, Dennis Schr\u00f6der hit the road once more this summer. He\u2019ll play the 2025-26 season with the Sacramento Kings, who acquired him via a sign-and-trade deal with the Pistons due to pay him $44.4 Million over the next three years.<\/p>\n

Ben Simmons remains unsigned after a brief stint last year with the Los Angeles Clippers following his buyout from Brooklyn. However, Marc Stein reported earlier this summer<\/a> that the\u00a0Boston Celtics,\u00a0Phoenix Suns,\u00a0Sacramento Kings, and\u00a0New York Knicks all have interest in him.<\/p>\n

Others<\/p>\n

Trendon Watford will stay on the east coast, having inked a two-year deal with the Philadelphia 76ers. Shake Milton is going even further in that direction. He also signed a two-year contract with\u00a0Partizan Mozzart Bet\u00a0in the Serbian basketball league.<\/p>\n

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Maxwell Lewis is headed overseas as well. The 23-year-old who came to Brooklyn alongside Russell and three second rounders for Finney-Smith and Milton played summer league ball for the Dallas Mavericks. Not long after the tournament, he signed with Tofa\u015f Spor Kul\u00fcb\u00fc, a professional\u00a0basketball\u00a0team that based in\u00a0Bursa,\u00a0Turkey.<\/p>\n

The same goes for Cui \u201cJacky\u201d Yongxi. The seventh Chinese player to log NBA minutes appeared in five games for the Nets last year but tore his ACL in a December game with Long Island. Having now recovered, he signed a deal with the Guangdong Southern Tigers, who former Net Yi Jianlian enjoyed two stints with.<\/p>\n

Reece Beekman recently signed a deal with the Orlando Magic. Jason Beede of The Orlando Sentinel reported that it\u2019s only an Exhibit-10 deal, so there\u2019s no guarantee he\u2019ll be there to stay.<\/p>\n

Jaylin Martin, Killian Hayes, and the recently waived Tosan Evbuomwan currently remain unsigned.<\/p>\n

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Extras<\/p>\n

While these guys haven\u2019t been Nets for some time, they also made larger scale moves this summer which feel worth mentoring.<\/p>\n

First up is Patty Mills, who last played for Brooklyn during the 2022-23 season. In early June, he agreed to become the\u00a0general manager\u00a0for the\u00a0University of Hawaii. Despite still being a free agent and picking up a new gig, he has yet to announce his retirement from the NBA.<\/p>\n

Blake Griffin, who hung it up in 2023 a season removed from his 1.5 year stint in Brooklyn, will pick up the mic this fall. He signed on to be part of the Prime Video studio set to cover the NBA this upcoming season, joining Taylor Rooks and Dirk Nowitzki. Ian Eagle and Michael Grady will also be a part of that crew, set to do play-by-play along with Kevin Harlan and Eric Collins.<\/p>\n

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You\u2019ll also see Bubble Nets alum Jamal Crawford on your televisions this year. After working previously with TNT and MSG Network, the 19-year NBA veteran is set to appear on NBA on NBC as a lead analyst this coming season. He\u2019ll also be joined by Vince Carter and former Nets head coach Steve Nash.<\/p>\n

Speaking of coaching, ex-Nets point guard Tyler Johnson joined the Fresno State Men\u2019s Basketball team as an assistant. Former head coach Jacque Vaughn agreed to do the same under Bill Self at Kansas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Brooklyn Nets 2025 offseason has been a rather quiet one. But despite many predicting that the team…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":128796,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[24002,21403,671,25153,12327,81779,760,81778,6423,1753,4576,1061,6426,1318,2243,7095,58594,5556,81780,11952,1055,81782,6409,355,361,11950,81785,2113,6415,81783,6404,81777,99,81787,81784,81786,36059,81781],"class_list":["post-128795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-ben-simmons","tag-blake-griffin","tag-brooklyn-nets","tag-cam-thomas","tag-cameron-johnson","tag-dangelo-russell","tag-dallas-mavericks","tag-deep-sea-fishing","tag-dennis-schroder","tag-denver-nuggets","tag-detroit-pistons","tag-dirk-nowitzki","tag-dorian-finney-smith","tag-free-agent","tag-golden-state-warriors","tag-houston","tag-jamal-crawford","tag-kevin-durant","tag-killian-hayes","tag-los-angeles-clippers","tag-los-angeles-lakers","tag-maxwell-lewis","tag-michael-porter-jr","tag-nba","tag-new-york-knicks","tag-orlando-magic","tag-patty-mills","tag-philadelphia-76ers","tag-phoenix-suns","tag-reece-beekman","tag-sacramento-kings","tag-shake-milton","tag-sports","tag-steve-nash","tag-tosan-evbuomwan","tag-trendon-watford","tag-vince-carter","tag-yi-jianlian"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128795\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/128796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}