The Brooklyn Nets have been making some moves since the 2025 NBA offseason began as they look to improve the roster for a better performance during the 2025-26 campaign. Brooklyn has already made some headlines by making five draft picks and trading for Denver Nuggets forward Michael Porter Jr., but they could also be part of the biggest trade in NBA history.
“What this really was was a bunch of second-round pick deals getting just snowballed together in order to help everyone figure out tax ramifications and avoid apron penalties and all that stuff,” NBA insider Jake Fischer said during a recent livestream on Bleacher Report. What Fischer was referring to was the trade sending Kevin Durant from the Phoenix Suns to the Houston Rockets reportedly being expanded to include an NBA-record seven teams.
“The Suns of course got super-aggressive and they traded up with Brooklyn for the No. 36 pick, the fifth pick in the second round of Thursday night’s second round last week,” Fischer continued. “I think it was a couple hours before the second round got started. So, that’s how Brooklyn got in.” As Fischer alluded to, the Nets end up being part of the Durant deal due to them trading the No. 36 pick to the Suns in exchange for two second-round picks from Houston.
While Brooklyn was rumored to be one of the teams looking to make deals using their cap space to help teams facilitate deals in exchange for draft picks and/or young players. There was nothing to indicate that the Nets were trying to acquire someone of Durant’s caliber given that Brooklyn is far from championship contention, but that didn’t stop them from trading for Porter.
At this point of the offseason, the Nets are most likely done with free-agency outside of re-signing restricted free-agent (RFA) Cam Thomas, assuming that a rival team isn’t trying to pry him away with a sizable offer sheet. Brooklyn has already reportedly re-signed forward Ziaire Williams and center Day’Ron Sharpe so the assumption is that Thomas should be re-signed before too much time has passed.