What’s the Nets draft picture? What can they use — and what can’t they use — if a trade opportunity arises? The simple answer is that it’s, well, complicated.
In the short term, Brooklyn doesn’t have much to offer, mainly because of the Rockets’ demand that the Nets send them all their first round picks and swaps in the January 2021 trade for James Harden. Sean Marks was able to get a couple of first round picks back when Harden was dispatched to Philly 13 months later but there’s still a significant deficit.
So here’s a rough outline, year-by-year, of where the Nets stand.