Sean Marks now has made trades in nine of the 10 drafts as Brooklyn Nets GM.

On Tuesday evening, the Nets wound up with Terance Mann and the 22nd pick in the 2025 NBA Draft for helping to facility a three-team deal that will send Kristaps Porzingis to the Atlanta Hawks and Georges Niang. The two other teams also exchanged second rounders. No word on what the Nets contributed other than cap space. The trade can’t become official till July 6, raising possibility deal could be expanded.

One league source in talking to NetsDaily called the trade “amazing” for the Nets, “wild that they got another first for taking on Mann’s deal.”

At the moment, Brooklyn holds six draft picks in Wednesday’s draft at Barclays Center, the eighth, 19th, 22nd, 26th and 27th picks in the first round and the 36th in the second round,, easily the most in the draft. How many of the picks will they “roster” remains a mystery. The team has multiple options: keeping all six which is the most unlikely option, as well as consolidating them in another move that could get them a higher pick, perhaps Ace Bailey Wednesday, perhaps stashing one overseas.

“What does that get you? Does that get you into the teens again? Or can you pick up a future down the road that you can use, similar to the OKC model? I do think when you have cap space, it certainly helps as far as maneuverability,” Bobby Marks told The Post.

Shams Charania had the news first…

BREAKING: Boston, Atlanta and Brooklyn are finalizing a three-team trade that sends Kristaps Porzingis and a second-round pick to the Hawks, Terance Mann and Atlanta’s No. 22 pick to the Nets, and Georges Niang and a second-rounder to the Celtics. pic.twitter.com/1fcbIslyVF

— Shams Charania (@ShamsCharania) June 24, 2025

Yossi Gozlan of capsheets.com and Third Apron podcast reported the Nets used $19 million of their cap space to make the deal work but still has plenty more…

The Brooklyn Nets will use $19 million in cap space to acquire Terance Mann and the 22nd pick.

They still project to generate between $43-50 million in cap space while being able to re-sign Cam Thomas.

I have to imagine they have trade-up opportunities. 5 firsts is madness. pic.twitter.com/KAvRAmWA5X

— Yossi Gozlan (@YossiGozlan) June 24, 2025

After taking in Terance Mann and the #22 pick, I’ve got the Brooklyn Nets with $37.5M in cap space remaining this offseason.

This situation is obviously VERY fluid. The point is that Brooklyn still has a ton of room to do all sorts of things this summer.

— Keith Smith (@KeithSmithNBA) June 24, 2025

Adding to the unlikelihood of Nets rostering all six picks is the salary requirements of having five first rounders on the roster. Should the Nets keep all five firsts, it would cost them $19.7 million in guaranteed salary next season and a grand total of $95.7 million over the course of the four-year rookie deals.

Mann, 28, is a 3-and-D player, a 6’7” small forward from Florida State who has a reputation for solid defense and high BBIQ. He’s owed $47.0 million over next three years.

He averaged 7.7 points on 50/37/69 shooting splits along with 3.0 rebounds and 1.8 assists in 67 games for the Clippers and Hawks last season. Mann responded this way to the news by with a tweet, later deleted, noting he was born in a Brooklyn hospital. He grew up in Massachusetts.

Michael Scotto of Hoopshype reports that the Nets have long “coveted” Mann…

The Brooklyn Nets have coveted Terance Mann in the past and get the No. 22 pick in the 2025 NBA Draft to help facilitate the Kristaps Porzingis trade from the Boston Celtics to the Atlanta Hawks. Brooklyn now has five first-round picks (8, 19, 22, 26, 27) and the 36th pick https://t.co/fxd21LVLxr

— Michael Scotto (@MikeAScotto) June 24, 2025

As Tim Bontemps wrote summarizing the trade:

For Brooklyn, the price of taking on the final three years of Mann’s contract from Atlanta was getting the No. 22 pick in the draft from the Hawks, which originally was the Lakers’ selection and came to the Hawks as part of last summer’s Dejounte Murray deal with the New Orleans Pelicans.

Brooklyn now has five selections in Wednesday’s first round: Nos. 8, 19, 22, 26 and 27. It also still has plenty of salary cap space left over this summer, and because the Nets are using cap space to make the deal, it cannot be official until the new league year begins on July 6.

Meanwhile, ESPN revised its mock draft following announcement of the trade. Jonathan Givony and Jeremy Woo have the Nets taking:

—#8: Tre Johnson, 6’6” SG Texas

—#19: Asa Newell, 6’10” PF Georgia

—#22: Nolan Traore, 6’3” PG Saint-Quinton

—#26: Nique Clifford, 6’7” SF Colorado State

—#27: Rasheer Fleming, 6’9” PF, St. Joseph’s

—#36: Hansen Yang, 7’2” C, Qingdao Eagles

“With five first-round picks at their disposal, it wouldn’t be surprising to see the Nets take several talent swings, hoping to uncover gems with some of their later selections,” wrote Givony and Woo.

To recapitulate:

Nets have six picks in 2025 Draft at Nos. 8, 19, 22, 26, 27 and 36. Both total picks and first rounders tops in the NBA;
Nets have a total of 32 draft picks – 16 firsts and 16 seconds through 2031, tops in the NBA;
Nets have $37.5 million in remaining cap space, tops in NBA.

On to Wednesday. The draft begins at 8:00 p.m. ET on ESPN.