It’s no secret what kind of season Brooklyn is going to have, what kind of tank the Nets are going to trudge through.

This is going to be a forced youth movement, one that will see them get their first taste of NBA competition Friday in China. After winning a preseason opener against outmatched Hapoel Jerusalem that amounted to light stretching and a warmup, now they’ll test themselves against the Suns at the Venetian in Macao.

“Well, I have to say that we’re in a rebuilding year,” team owner Joe Tsai said recently at an event hosted by the All-In podcast. “We spent all of our [2025] picks — we had five first-round draft picks this past summer.

“We have one pick in 2026, and we hope to get a good pick. So you can predict what kind of strategy we will use for this season. But we have a v

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