The Brooklyn Nets five first rounders don’t have a legacy. They’ve only been around each other for a little more than a week, but Egor Demin, Nolan Traore, Drake Powell, Ben Saraf and Danny Wolf realize their situation is unique: the first time an NBA club took five players in the first round of a Draft.
“This is special,” Demin said at a community event with he and the other Nets rookies at a basketball camp in Sunset Park, not far from the HSS Training Center. “Obviously no other team ever did the same thing in the draft.