The Brooklyn Nets don't enter the 2025-26 NBA season with playoff expectations. After reacquiring their 2025 and 2026 first-round picks and entering a rebuild, the team is mired in another tanking campaign. However, with an NBA-record five rookie first-round picks and several veteran trade acquisitions entering the mix, numerous questions surround the rebuilding squad.

The Nets open their regular season on Wednesday vs. the Charlotte Hornets. With that, here are three bold predictions for Brooklyn's 2025-26 campaign.

Nets finish in the bottom three of the NBA standings

If the Nets' selection of five rookies wasn't a clear enough signal that they are tanking, Joe Tsai all but confirmed it during a recent podcast appearance.

“Well, I have to say that we’re in a rebuilding year,” Tsai

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