The Brooklyn Nets made plenty of moves this offseason as they prepare for a 2025-26 NBA season that will hopefully give the franchise and fans something to look forward to in the future. Brooklyn did not necessarily go all-in on trying to make the playoffs this upcoming season, but that doesn’t mean that they didn’t making valuable transactions over the course of the summer.

“The Nets were bad last season, winning just 26 games — their fewest since 2016-17 — and they will likely be bad again,” ESPN’s Neil Paine wrote of the Nets in terms of their expectations for the upcoming season. The purpose of Paine’s piece was to explain that Brooklyn gained the fourth-most roster value in the league over the course of the 2025 offseason, even though that fact may not show up in the wins column.

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“However, they did acquire the more productive recent player (plus an unprotected first-round pick) in the trade that shipped Johnson to Denver in July,” Paine continued while referencing the Nets trading for forward Michael Porter Jr. and a 2032 first-round pick from the Denver Nuggets. “It was a cap-driven move for the Nuggets, but the Nets got a player in Porter who is younger and produced nearly twice as many WAR (11.7 vs. 6.3) over the past two seasons, helping to drive their net WAR (+3.0) here.”

By the numbers posted in Paine’s article, the Nets gained 10.0 points in WAR (Wins Above Replacement) while losing 7.0 points in the category, giving them a net WAR gained of 3.0, good for fourth in the Association. The three teams that gained more net WAR this offseason were the Los Angeles Clippers (+8.1), Houston Rockets (+5.1), and Dallas Mavericks (+3.8).

For the Nets, they added four players with a positive WAR in Porter (5.6), forward Haywood Highsmith (1.7), wing Terance Mann (1.5), and rookie guard Egor Demin (0.6) with the top losses being forward Cam Johnson (3.5) and guard D’Angelo Russell (2.8). Ultimately, Brooklyn is expected to be one of the worst teams in the league during this upcoming season, but they also added plenty of value over the course of the offseason at the same time.

This article originally appeared on Nets Wire: Nets gained 4th-most roster value during 2025 NBA offseason