The Brooklyn Nets will have five picks to use in the upcoming 2025 NBA Draft that begins on Wednesday so they will be able to add plenty of young talent. Brooklyn has many players to sort through prior to the beginning of the Draft, but it looks like they will be bringing in a player who has seen his draft stock rise significantly over the past year.
The Nets are projected to take Saint Joseph’s forward Rasheer Fleming with the 26th overall pick in the Draft, according to Bleacher Report’s Jonathan Wasserman in his mock draft following the 2025 NBA Finals. The 26th pick will be Brooklyn’s third pick in the first round, meaning that someone like Fleming could be the Nets taking the chance on a player who projects to be a promising wing on both ends of the floor.
“Rasheer Fleming’s 7’5″ wingspan measurement was eye-opening for a barefoot 6’8″, 232-pound forward,” Wasserman wrote when discussing Fleming. “That physical profile, plus a shooting stroke that connected on 62 threes (39.0 percent) will generate interest from a number of teams in the mid-to-late first round. We’ve heard from scouts who think he’s going to go earlier than many initially expected.”
Fleming, 20, is coming off a 2024-25 season in which he averaged 14.7 points, 8.5 rebounds, 1.5 blocks, 1.4 steals, and 1.3 assists per game while shooting 53.1% from the field and 39.0% from three-point land. While Fleming’s stock has varied somewhere between being a Lottery pick and the end of the first-round, it seems that he will be taken somewhere in the first round.
Brooklyn’s first pick in the first round is eighth overall and based on most mock drafts, Fleming isn’t expected to be taken by any team that high in the draft. However, the Nets’ second pick in the first round is 19th overall and time will tell if Brooklyn will have to take Fleming at that spot if they don’t want to miss out on bringing him into the organization.