Nets News: Brooklyn To Seek Trade Suitor For Mason Plumlee?

The Brooklyn Nets appear to be on a collision course with a complete roster overhaul this offseason, and while Deron Williams and Joe Johnson are obvious names that could find themselves playing elsewhere in 2015-16, but young power forward/center Mason Plumlee is another name that has found himself at the center of recent trade rumors.

From Marc Stein of ESPN.com:

It’s unavoidably tantalizing to think about what the Nets might have gotten for Plumlee, had they actively shopped him before he fell out of favor — bearing in mind the two future first-round picks Denver extracted from Cleveland for Timofey Mozgov.

Some rival executives think the Nets might go ahead and explore the Plumlee marketplace anyway, in hopes teams remember his dogged play for Team USA the past summer more than his struggles to get on the floor under first-year Nets coach Lionel Hollins. Now, though, would not appear to be the ideal time to see what shopping him might fetch. …

And I’m hearing teams have indeed begun to inquire about availability of Mason Plumlee based on belief Nets willing to move the young big man.

Plumlee is still playing on a rookie scale contract -- a potentially huge, inexpensive trade chip for a Nets team besieged by salary cap and luxury tax problems.

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