The Brooklyn Nets are less than one month away from making some important decisions in the 2025 NBA Draft pertaining to the players that they select with those picks. Brooklyn has five picks in the upcoming Draft, including four in the first round, and while they are doing as much homework on the class as possible, they could be looking for other deals at the same time.

The Nets, among other teams, have been “mentioned by rival executives as teams to monitor for potential trades up into the late lottery,” according to NBA insider Jake Fischer in his article for The Stein Line. This report follows others made by Fischer in which other teams around the league expect Brooklyn to be one of the teams to shake things up in some way.

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NetsDaily recently reported that the Nets may use forward Cam Johnson and the 19th overall pick to get a second Lottery pick. What that means in practice remains to be seen given that the implication is for Brooklyn to get a Lottery pick that is close to No. 8 if not better. Prior to NetsDaily’s report, Brian Lewis of the New York Post relayed that the Nets may use Johnson to get their desired outcome.

Ultimately, there is still plenty of time between the writing of this article and when the Draft begins on June 25 so whether Brooklyn is able to pull off a Draft trade remains to be seen. NetsDaily reported that the Nets are targeting the 10th overall pick, owned by the Houston Rockets, or the ninth overall pick, which is in possession of the Toronto Raptors.

NetsDaily included in his report that the Nets would be willing to offer the aforementioned deal including Johnson and the No. 19 pick along with taking on a bad contract to make the deal work. As the Draft gets closer, it seems that the sentiment around the league is that Brooklyn will be one of the more active teams heading into the event and given where the Nets are in terms of roster construction, making deals could allow them to maximize their assets.

This article originally appeared on Nets Wire: Report: Nets among most likely teams to trade up in 2025 NBA Draft