The Brooklyn Nets are expected to be among the NBA's worst teams this season. After falling to the eighth pick in the 2025 draft, the rebuilding squad is aiming for a top selection in a highly-touted 2026 draft. The Nets boast the NBA's youngest roster featuring an NBA-record five rookie first-round picks.

That inexperience and Brooklyn's clear tanking agenda has inspired little confidence surrounding the team's 2025-26 outlook. DraftKings Sportsbook set the Nets' over-under win projection at 20.5. CBS Sports' Keith Smith projected Jordi Fernandez's squad to finish under that number.

“I was somewhat tempted to take Brooklyn's over purely because of Jordi Fernandez and the Eastern Conference, but, as we've touched on with so many teams, incentives,” Smith wrote. “The Nets actively tra

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