The NBA Draft being a two-day event is still something that Boston Celtics fans are getting used to, as the change was only implemented last summer.
While it remains to be seen just what the Celtics get out of Hugo Gonzalez as he makes the transition from Real Madrid to the NBA, one of Boston's division rivals is already being hammered for their approach on Wednesday night.
The Brooklyn Nets were thought to be one of the teams that could shake things up at the top end of the lottery, as they owned five of the first 30 selections. Instead, they are now being laughed at by Celtics fans and the rest of the NBA.
Celtics Fans Are Laughing at the Brooklyn Nets' NBA Draft Day Blunder
The high hopes that Nets fans had for Wednesday night's NBA Draft quickly changed. Rather than using their haul of first-round picks to target a young player in the top five or pursuing a trade for an established veteran, Sean Marks elected to make all five selections that Brooklyn owned and plans to keep those players.
Not only did the Nets, almost inexplicably, draft five players. Four of their five picks were perimeter players. Their fifth pick was a point-forward who played two seasons for the Yale Bulldogs before transferring to the University of Michigan for his final year of collegiate basketball. It was perplexing at the time, and it makes even less sense now that the basketball world has had a night to simmer on it., as evidenced by Brian Windhorst's comments on ESPN.
Brian Windhorst on ESPN mentions execs and agents were contacting him making fun of the Brooklyn Nets draft room.
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“I got some people telling me some things about Brooklyn. People are making fun of these draft picks. I got people saying to me, you know, executives and agents, they’re like ‘I was watching them play three two-way guys during this year so that they could clout for taking the guys in the 20s. He’s like ‘These two-way guys might be just as good as these guys they are taking.’ I don’t know anything about it, I’m just saying what people are saying,” Windhorst said, via Matt Yoder of Awful Announcing.
Needless to say, Boston's division rival will be catching heat for their approach to the 2025 NBA Draft for quite some time unless this bold strategy happens to work. Brooklyn is embarking on a new era under first-year head coach Jordi Fernandez. Perhaps these players fit the type of system he wants to run. Until that time comes, if it ever even does, the Nets will continue to be ridiculed and laughed at for doing nothing to elevate them from the lottery-level team they already were.