ESPN, in its latest draft feature, think the Nets should take Tre Johnson if they remain at No. 6 — and somebody else doesn’t move on the fast-rising 6’6” Texas sharpshooter. That’s speculative, of course. ESPN’s Jeremy Woo doesn’t contend he knows the inner workings of the Nets draft process. (In fact, in Brooklyn’s newest video on the team’s scouts, the team’s big board is purposedly blurred.)
However, Woo does offer some intelligence from around the league on what the Brooklyn Nets might be thinking.
What we’re hearing on the Nets: The buzz from rival teams has been the Nets aren’t planning for a true long-haul tank, even after reacquiring their own picks last summer.