Michael Porter Jr. has sparked some of the biggest free agency rumors for the Brooklyn Nets this offseason. After former Denver Nuggets teammate Peyton
Michael Porter Jr.’s fate with the Brooklyn Nets could be decided as soon as the end of the Summer League. The Shooting Forward is eligible for a contract extension, but according to Chris Haynes, Porter could end up outside Brooklyn in the near future.
Michael Porter Jr. isn’t waiting for the front office to make the pitch. He’s doing the recruiting himself. The Brooklyn Nets forward publicly campaigned for his former Denver Nuggets teammate Peyton Watson to join him in Brooklyn, predicting a massive payday for the restricted free agent in the process.
For the greater part of the 2000s, many kids across many generations would flip on ESPN the second they came home from a long day of school. One of the programs they'd tune into was Around the Horn, with Buy or Sell being the show's most popular segment.
Congressman John Moolenaar, a Republican who heads an advisory committee on “strategic competition between the U.S. and the Chinese Communist Party, called
At the end of the game or in other big moments, it's usually the team's stars who have the ball. Sometimes, though, it's the role players who get the chance to shine and deliver.
It only took a matter of seconds for Brooklyn Nets fans to recognize Mikel Brown Jr. as the blue chip, potential franchise-carrying prospect they’ve been searching for.
As we wrote in the piece asking the question, it was a very tough year for Nets fans. A ton of losses and a Knicks championship. Not the best. However, the Draft and more specifically, the combination between the California Classic and Las Vegas Summer League have seemingly given this fanbase a sigh of relief.
Meeting expectations is exactly what Mikel Brown Jr. has done for the Brooklyn Nets in the limited action he's seen so far. He was drafted with the sixth overall pick in the 2026 NBA Draft and ranks as the sixth-best rookie after NBA Summer League by ESPN's Zach Kram.
The Brooklyn Nets should be an improved team next season, but it’s still too early to start targeting fit over talent. The next couple of years in Brooklyn will be quite interesting as the team navigates this stage of the rebuild.
The Brooklyn Nets are set to have a fully new trio of two-way contract players this coming season. The days of having Tyson Etienne fill one of those spots are over, as he signed a deal to go play pro overseas on Thursday.
The Nets Summer League tournament run ended in a 100-83 loss to the Houston Rockets on Thursday, but not before a fourth-quarter surge nearly turned the tide.
Typically, the path to the NBA for most players is to spend at least a season in college to get high-level basketball and important development under their belts.
Paris Basketball has signed free agent point guard Tyson Etienne, according to an announcement from the EuroLeague team (Twitter link). Etienne, 26, spent all of last season on a two-way contract with the Nets.
Well, that was fun! The Nets absolutely dominated on Tuesday with a 115-83 victory against the Kings. It was arguably the best we’ve seen the Flatbush Five play together, and certainly the best Brooklyn has played this summer.
Michael Porter Jr.’s extension negotiation marks the next crucial decision of the Brooklyn Nets’ offseason. General Manager Sean Marks said the Nets will open a dialogue with the star forward about a new deal, but they aren’t in a hurry.
The Brooklyn Nets are set to face the Houston Rockets in their final pool play match of this year's NBA Summer League. With 12 teams in the race for four semifinal spots, this is an opportunity for their young core to stand out and make some noise in Las Vegas.
The Brooklyn Nets have been in the midst of a rebuild for a few years, but their situation shouldn’t force them to rush out of that stage. Next season, the Nets should have a much different look from the past couple of years.
The Brooklyn Nets finished with one of the worst records in the NBA last season. This offseason, the front office made moves to ensure that doesn’t happen again.
Michael Porter Jr. has been on the trade block for what has felt like forever. This past season, Porter was heavily involved in trade rumors, as the Brooklyn Nets, a team that finished with a 20-62 record, were expected to try and get a ton of value in return for the forward they received from the Denver Nuggets in the Cameron Johnson trade.
The Brooklyn Nets have an interesting decision ahead of them at NBA Summer League: continue to play Egor Dëmin in hopes of a championship, or sit him to avoid injury.
Michael Porter Jr. has seemingly been in trade rumors the minute the Brooklyn Nets acquired him from the Denver Nuggets. The once highly touted prospect turned in the best season of his career in his first season in Brooklyn, averaging nearly 25 points per game on solid shooting splits.
The Nets aren’t in any hurry to make a long-term decision on Michael Porter Jr. General manager Sean Marks said the organization values Porter and expects extension talks to happen eventually, but indicated there’s no urgency.
The Lakers have confirmed the signing of free agent forward Ziaire Williams to a one-year, $3 million deal. The 24-year-old forward last played for the Nets and in 2025-26 averaged 10.2 points, 2.4 rebounds, and 1.4 steals while going 42.5% from the field and 34.3% from the three-point line.
Free agent wing Ziaire Williams has agreed to a one-year, $3MM contract with the Lakers, sources tell ESPN’s Shams Charania (Twitter link). Williams has spent the past two seasons in Brooklyn following a three-year run in Memphis.
The Nets have waived Malachi Smith, tweets Brian Lewis of The New York Post. Brooklyn exercised its minimum-salary team option on Smith at the end of June, but his contract was non-guaranteed, so the Nets won’t incur a cap charge by releasing him.
When the Chicago Bulls traded away veterans for minimal returns over the last 18 months, the strategy did give them massive cap space this summer. The team didn't do much with it.