The Brooklyn Nets are just a few days away from the 2025-26 NBA season beginning with Media Day and training camp next week to start off the campaign. Brooklyn will be heading into the season with a different roster than it ended the 2024-25 season with, but the Nets are still in the early stages of the rebuild. Where is Brooklyn at within the rebuild?

“Where Brooklyn at? Well, pretty much where it was last season: searching for an identity and a way to emerge as a team with a solid future,” Shaun Powell wrote for NBA.com when discussing the Nets. Brooklyn is coming off a 2024-25 season in which they finished with a 26-56 record, but they also selected five players in the first round of the 2025 NBA Draft in what is quite the youth movement in a hurry.

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“This transition is proving tricky, as the rebuilding Nets are still devoid of a potential All-Star unless Michael Porter Jr. blossoms now that he’s away from Denver,” Powell continued. “The Nets are still debating whether Cam Thomas fits; he’ll be on the roster for this season at least. Otherwise, the Nets will throw their five No. 1 picks — Danny Wolf, Drake Powell, Nolan Traore, Ben Saraf and Egor DÑ‘min — against the wall and see who sticks.”

To Powell’s point, Brooklyn is still looking for that player that can be the leader of the franchise on the court as the team works its way back to contending for a playoff spot. As of this writing, the best players on the team are forward Michael Porter Jr., who the team acquired via trade from the Denver Nuggets, guard Cam Thomas, who is back on his qualifying offer, and center Nic Claxton.

While Porter is hoping to expand his game during his time with the Nets, Brooklyn is hoping that one of Egor Demin, Nolan Traore, Drake Powell, Ben Saraf, and Danny Wolf can show something this upcoming season. The Nets will most likely be headed for another tough season, but with the 2026 NBA Draft projected to have some top-end talent, Brooklyn just has to continue to develop the players already on the roster in the meantime.

This article originally appeared on Nets Wire: Where are the Nets at this point of the rebuild heading into 2025-26?