With the 26th overall pick in the 2025 NBA Draft, the Nets took Israeli guard Ben Saraf. Saraf has some parts of his profile that appeal to most teams in terms of his ability to handle the basketball and make plays while standing at 6-foot-6 and 199 pounds.

The Nets were finally allowed to be bad. It was encouraged. And now they have their first lottery pick since 2010 (who they traded at the deadine.) The eighth pick was disappointing and still is, but they have five first-round picks to work with,

It was exactly a year ago today when the Nets agreed to trade Mikal Bridges to the Knicks — the same moment every Brooklyn Nets fan open a sharpie marker and circled June 25, 2025 on their calendar.