Nets G Egor Demin on why he chose the #8:

“I chose #8 because one half of 8 is my first letter in my name (1/2 of 8 looks like E) and the second half is #3, the day I was born in the 3rd month.”

Demin was born March 3, 2006, or 03/03/2006.
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Brooklyn Nets guard Egor Demin chose to wear the #8 on his jersey to being his NBA career after being selected by the Nets with the eighth overall pick in the 2025 NBA Draft. Demin is one of the players that Brooklyn will be relying on to show what he can do on the court as the team tries to speed up this rebuild and he explained why he chose his current number.

“I chose #8 because one half of 8 is my first letter in my name (1/2 of 8 looks like E) and the second half is #3, the day I was born in the 3rd month,” Demin said in a video posted on the NBA app. While the first part of his explanation is obvious, the second of why he chose the number eight is interesting because he was born on March 3, 2006.

Demin, 19, came to the Nets after spending the 2024-25 season as a member of the BYU Cougars after spending the 2023 season playing for Spanish club Real Madrid. Demin came to the United States as somewhere between a four-star and five-star recruit and once he enrolled at BYU, he was the school’s first five-star recruit in the history of the school.

Demin, listed at 6-foot-9 and 200 pounds, has played two games for Brooklyn thus far in the Las Vegas Summer League and Nets fans have been understandably curious about how he has looked. Demin is averaging 10.0 points, 4.0 rebounds, and 2.0 assists per game while shooting 33.3% from the field and 40.0% from three-point land, one of the areas that NBA Draft experts were worried about.

Demin was regarded as the best passer in this draft given the way that he uses his height to find windows that most point guards cannot see along with his feathery touch to maximize his accuracy. While Demin has averaged 1.5 turnovers per game, his shooting numbers from the free-throw line and long-range have been encouraging as Brooklyn is hoping his shooting can improve sooner than later.