The Nets are back in the Long Island business, again, because at this point, they almost have to be.
Brooklyn announced it signed forward Trevon Scott to a 10-day contract on Thursday, the latest late-season call-up for a roster that has been stretched thin and reshaped nightly. The Nets are 18-58 with six games left, starting Friday against the Atlanta Hawks at Barclays Center, and the final stretch has become a mix of survival, evaluation and opportunity.
Scott is the latest player to fall into that window.
Scott, 6-8, 225-pounds, has spent the season with Long Island and played 47 total games across the Tip-Off Tournament and regular season. He averaged 12.0 points, 4.7 rebounds, 2.0 assists and 1.1 steals in 27.9 minutes per game. That’s steady production, but it also fits what the Nets tend to value from their G League pipeline, a forward who can do multiple things, play within a role and compete possession to possession.
The 29-year-old has logged 199 career G League games across multiple stops, including Long Island, Salt Lake City, Cleveland, Agua Caliente, Greensboro and Osceola. Over that G League career, he has averaged 10.7 points, 5.6 rebounds, 1.8 assists and 1.1 steals in 28.2 minutes. Over the last two seasons with Long Island, he has posted 11.8 points, 5.7 rebounds, 1.9 assists and 1.2 steals, a profile that reads like a dependable two-way worker. He went undrafted in 2020 after four seasons at Cincinnati, where he averaged 6.6 points, 5.7 rebounds and 1.3 assists in 21.4 minutes across 135 games.
He’s had a brief taste of the highest level before. Scott has appeared in two career NBA games, both for the Cleveland Cavaliers in 2021-22, totaling six points, two rebounds, one steal and one block in 11 combined minutes. Now he gets another look, this time with a Nets team that has been cycling through young players and call-ups all season.
Scott is also the third Long Island player to earn a call-up to Brooklyn this season, joining Grant Nelson and Malachi Smith. Smith received two consecutive 10-day contracts and averaged 6.4 points, 2.1 rebounds and 2.2 assists across nine appearances before being re-assigned to Long Island on Wednesday for the G League playoffs. Nelson appeared in four games with Brooklyn and averaged 4.3 points, 1.5 rebounds and 1.3 assists.
“They come here, I don’t even have to practice with them,” Nets head coach Jordi Fernández said of the Long Island pipeline. “They’re ready to play and they know what we’re doing. So, a lot of credit to [Mfon Udofia] and the rest of the staff, how they’ve competed, they’ve played the right way, to the coaches here being in contact with the coaches there, trying to follow all the plans that we have. Development is important, but being competitive is important…That’s what we want them to do. And once again, they’ve done an unbelievable job.”
The timing lines up with another reality of Brooklyn’s finish.
Rookie Danny Wolf is in a walking boot with a sprained ankle and will likely miss the rest of the season, another hit for a roster that’s been patching itself together for weeks. Scott’s 10-day doesn’t solve everything, but it gives the Nets another playable body, another forward with a track record in their system, and another chance to see who can hold up in real NBA minutes.