The most likely answer won't excite fans. Brooklyn entered the offseason with hopes of landing a franchise-altering talent. They had two clear avenues to do so: spiking a top draft pick or cashing in their chips for Giannis Antetokounmpo.

The Brooklyn Nets were disappointed after Monday's 2025 NBA Draft Lottery and as a result, they reportedly are regarded as a trade-up candidate.

The Nets head to Chicago with the sixth-best odds to win the lottery — a 9 percent chance of winning the right to select Cooper Flagg.

The Nets have drafted in the top ten 16 times. Those players have combined for just seven All-Star selections with the team, the most recent being Brook Lopez (2013) and Kenyon Martin (2004). Buck Williams, who the Nets selected third overall in 1981, is the franchise's only top-10 pick to make multiple All-Star appearances.

Among them were Jrue Holiday and Tobias Harris, both of whom played for the Sixers for multiple years. Bleacher Report’s Greg Swartz floated a three-way trade between the Boston Celtics, Detroit Pistons, and Brooklyn Nets that would put Holiday and Harris on different teams. He proposed the following swap:

Here are live updates for the 2025 NBA Draft Lottery as the Philadelphia 76ers await their draft fate for their top 6 protected selection.

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Former Philadelphia 76ers star Ben Simmons will be an unrestricted free agent this summer. Simmons had a one-year deal with the Los Angeles Clippers after his five-year, $177 million contract with the Brooklyn Nets. He signed the massive contract with the Sixers in 2019, at the height of his career.