While the Barclays Center gates may not show it, some Nets fans had a hard time getting fully invested in last season’s team. The players played hard and fought doggedly — perhaps too doggedly for the tastes of some fans rooting for lottery positioning — but the real issue wasn’t their fight. It was their future.

Or more accurately, many of the players on that roster in Year 1 of Brooklyn’s rebuild didn’t have a future with this franchise. They were merely placeholders <a href="https://nypost.com/2025/08/06/sports/what-nets-risk-in-trying-to-tank-to-brighter-future/">until the Nets drafted the foundational pieces</a> they plan to build around.

“You just exist on a spreadsheet,” one highly regarded agent recently told The Post of the roster approach.

With the Nets set to start training camp on Sept. 25, it begs the question of whose name is just penciled in and who will be here for the long term?{ai:summary}<p>Nets fans never fully bought in last season; players fought hard, but the bigger issue was the uncertain future.</p><p>Many were placeholders in Year 1 of the rebuild, kept to fill minutes until the core is drafted, effectively existing on a spreadsheet, per an agent #sports</p>

Who are the Nets’ true building blocks — and who’s the next to go?

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