The scouting for the 2025 NBA Draft is done. Now it’s about combines and workouts and according to the Ary Report, who tracks such things, the Brooklyn Nets have begun hosting prospects at HSS Training Center.
Here’s the tweet from Tuesday night…
The Brooklyn Nets will host a pre-draft workout tomorrow featuring Wake Forest’s Hunter Sallis, West Virginia’s Javon Small, Houston’s J’Wan Roberts, and Temple’s Steve Settle lll, league sources tell me.
— Ary (@Ary_Report) May 7, 2025
There were probably two other prospects in the Wednesday workout. NBA teams normally have six players in for workouts. Some teams will announce who’s in but the Nets are not among them.
With four first rounders and a second, the most in the league, expect a large number of prospects to make the trek to 139th Street. The Nets and other NBA teams use the workouts not just to cull the best of the best, but also to take a look at players who could wind up on two-way deals, Summer League and Long Island Nets rosters. (In SCOUT, the Nets ongoing docuseries about the scouting process, Matt MacDonald, Long Island’s GM, is shown at games and in meetings.)
Of the prospects Bhullar cites, the two most prominent are Hunter Sallis, a 22-year-old 6’5” shooting guard who’s averaged 18 points a game for the Demon Deacons earning All-ACC honors both years. Sallis, a cousin of former Net James Harden, is currently mocked at the 59th and last pick in the Draft. Here’s some video.
Settle didn’t make ESPN Big Board of top 100 prospects, but Settle in particular has an interesting resume’ A 6’11” wing out of Temple, he averaged 12.5 points on 47/42/77 shooting splits. In addition, 6’8” power forward J’Wan Roberts averaged 10.5 points and 6.8 rebounds for NCAA runner-up Houston, including 11 points, 12 rebounds, five assists and two steals in the Cougars upset of Duke in the Final Four.
As for the lottery picks, expect to see them later in the process, particularly after Monday night’s Draft Lottery.