The Brooklyn Nets are one of the teams that surprised many around the league with their actions during the 2025 NBA Draft that happened last week. Brooklyn not only made all five of their first-round picks, the first time that happened in NBA history, but they also took BYU guard Egor Demin No. 8 overall. One former NBA player likes what the Nets did, though.

“For me, I got to give a lot of love to (general manager) Sean Marks and Brooklyn. What they did with drafting Egor Demin, I love him,” former NBA sharpshooter Danny Green said on ESPN’s NBA Today when asked for his winner of the 2025 NBA Draft. While most around the league felt that the Nets made a mistake by taking Demin with the eighth overall pick, it seems that Green is higher on Demin than most.

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“My guy, Drake Powell, from (North) Carolina, I got to give a lot of love to those guys,” Green continued. “Egor, (a) 6-foot-9 point guard, can do a little bit of everything, kind of Luka (Doncic)-like. Drake Powell, silky-smooth, shoots a mid-range jumper, very athletic. They got a lot of draft picks in the first round that are very good. (Brooklyn) can use them for the start of the season or they can use them to pick up a superstar if they need to in this free-agency.”

As Green said, much of the attention on Marks and head coach Jordi Fernandez will be on the development of Demin given how high the Nets took him in the Draft. Demin, who said during Brooklyn’s Draft press conference that he believes he and the team are a perfect fit for each other in terms of style of play, may be thrown into the fire from the beginning since the Nets do not have a point guard at the moment.

With D’Angelo Russell signing with the Dallas Mavericks this offseason, Demin, along with guard Cam Thomas if he re-signs with the team in restricted free-agency, will have to take on most of the ball-handling responsibility and playmaking. Powell, who has some interesting upside as a 3-and-D wing, seems to be getting love from a former Tar Heel in Green as well. Green seems to be a fan of what Marks and company did during the Draft.

This article originally appeared on Nets Wire: Nets 2025 NBA Draft class receives praise from Danny Green