All three members of the Brooklyn Nets’ 2023 NBA Draft class will be playing in Las Vegas Summer League starting Friday, and all three are a safe bet to get real minutes next season in Brooklyn.
But while all three sophomores find themselves with an increased opportunity at ground zero of a rebuild — under a new, player-development-focused coaching staff no less — all three are in markedly different places in their basketball journeys.
Dariq Whitehead, in two years since leaving Montverde Academy as the #1 high school recruit in the nation by high school scouting services, has seen two injury-riddled seasons at Duke and in Brooklyn take him off the fast track to if not NBA stardom, then at least real NBA opportunity.