NEW YORK — Brooklyn Nets rookie forward Danny Wolf heads into the 2025-26 NBA season in an interesting position of being versatile enough to play at power forward and at center. Brooklyn has the center position covered with starter Nic Claxton and backup Day’Ron Sharpe, but head coach Jordi Fernandez explained how he sees Wolf fitting into the rotation once the regular season comes around.

“I see him as a basketball player. He’s a player that can play-make, big, capable shooter, obviously trying to learn the NBA,” Fernandez said following Tuesday’s training camp practice. As Fernandez alluded to, Wolf, listed at 6-foot-11 and 250 pounds, does have the ability to handle the ball like a guard at his size, making his implementation into an offensive system interesting, especially with how fast the Nets want to play.

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“Whether he’s on offense and defense and establishing himself so once again, giving him the proper steps, giving him the chance to go beat [his defender],” Fernandez continued. “If he’s better than Nic, he’ll play over Nic. If he’s better than Day’Ron, he’ll play over Day’Ron. If he’s better than [forward] Noah [Clowney], he’ll play over Noah and so on. He’s done a great job and I’m excited to watch him play real games and the preseason and leading into the NBA season.”

As of this writing, Wolf projects to be one of the backup power forwards behind starter Noah Clowney given the relative lack of depth at the power forward position compared to other spots on the roster. While Fernandez has made it clear that he doesn’t see basketball through the lens of positions, but most NBA personnel sees the game through ball-handlers (usually guards), wings (usually shooting guards and small forwards), and bigs (power forwards and centers).

Despite Wolf’s uncanny ability to handle the basketball like a guard along with shooting 33.6% from three-point land during the 2024-25 season with the Michigan Wolverines, it’s safe to say that Fernandez and the coaching staff sees Wolf as a big. Whether that means he will spend more time at power forward or at center is left to be seen, but Fernandez wanted to clearly communicate that Wolf is versatile enough to play in multiple spots within the rotation.

This article originally appeared on Nets Wire: Nets’ Jordi Fernandez explains viewpoint of Danny Wolf’s position