NBA Draft season is lying season, and the Sean Marks Nets always have prided themselves on their secretiveness.

Discerning their precise offseason plans is tricky, which is exactly the way he likes it.

But unless they’re pulling off the best misdirection since “The Usual Suspects,” moving Mikal Bridges — to Portland, Utah, Memphis or anywhere else — isn’t part of those plans.

Despite recent rumors of the Nets swapping Bridges for draft picks, everybody from the front office to the coaching staff to teammates claim the organization is more apt to use Bridges as a building block than a trade chip.

And while words are cheap, their actions say the same. Bridges has become the focus of the Nets’ marketing and face of their franchise, and has been seen publicly hanging around with team ownership.

Brooklyn Bridges appears here to stay.

The Nets had a Big 3 of Kevin Durant, Kyrie Irving and James Harden, but the chaos overshadowed and undercut the talent. They traded all three, the Durant deal ending their championship window and remaking their roster with Bridges at the heart of it.

Low-key and low-maintenance, he is in many ways the antithesis of that superstar trio, an ironman who is drama-free.

“I think Brooklyn had a lot going on with, you know, they had Kyrie, Harden and KD and then all that happening…and Kyrie and all that stuff,” Bridges recently told “The Pivot Podcast” hosted by ex-NFL players Ryan Clark, Channing Crowder and Fred Taylor. “I think they were just ready for, like, a refresh.

“And I’m like the total opposite of all them dudes. I’m just like the quietest, chillest. I ain’t really tripping off nothing. I’m just happy all the time. … I’m just like, ‘Well, I’m not [high-maintenance]. I don’t do anything that you’re ever going to catch me off-camera doing some crazy s–t.’ I’m pretty chill.”

Bridges didn’t elaborate on “all that stuff,” but it’s been well-documented. And it’s part of the reason the Nets have pivoted to valuing his quiet, positive leadership.

Harden pouted and lollygagged his way out of Brooklyn to Philadelphia at last season’s trade deadline. Irving missed two-thirds of the 2021-22 season due to his refusal to adhere to New York’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate, had a testy contract offseason dispute and then got suspended during this past season for promoting an anti-Semitic film.

Irving demanded a trade in February, and four-time scoring champ Durant followed days later. Compared to Irving’s dramatics and Durant’s injuries — now 34 and having played just 134 combined games over the past four regular seasons — Bridges represents a lower ceiling but higher floor that the Nets seem comfortable with.

Though sources told The Post that the Nets’ interest in dealing for Damian Lillard is very real, the Trail Blazers’ apparent determination to keep the point guard and move their No. 3 overall pick in next month’s draft for a veteran to appease him sparked different rumors of swapping Bridges for the selection.

But all indications are that’s not happening.

The Grizzlies reportedly offered four first-round picks for Bridges, and the Jazz — one of the few teams with more first-round selections than the Nets over the next handful of years — has also been mentioned.

But the Nets, who don’t have control of their own picks due to the initial trade to acquire Harden from the Rockets, aren’t interested in a full-on rebuild.

Nets owner Joe Tsai and Marks see Bridges as a keeper, and he’s already the face of the franchise.

Bridges sat courtside with Nets and Liberty owner Clara Wu Tsai at last weekend’s Liberty home opener at Barclays Center, and called her “literally one of my favs.”

Bridges has rapidly become one of the Nets’ favs.

“I think he’s proven to a lot of people that his role can continue to get better and better and bigger and bigger,” Marks said.

“But now that when the ball is in his hands in those key crucial moments of games, can he step up? Can he be that guy that we can rely on in big moments? I think we saw it a little bit in Phoenix when Devin Booker was out. He carried a considerable load for them. And then we saw this year where he came in and immediately was a crowd favorite.”

Part of that was giving a crowd dispirited by the loss of Durant and Irving at least some modicum of hope for the future. Bridges outpaced all reasonable expectations, averaging 26.1 points for the Nets on .475/.376/.894 solid shooting splits along with strong defense.

Some have advocated selling high on Bridges, presuming he cannot possibly maintain that level of play. But Bridges also averaged 23.1 points on .484/.377/.918 shooting in his final 13 games with the Suns, taking up the scoring load for an injured Booker.

That stretch taught Bridges to be more aggressive on the court. He’ll mesh that with his understated leadership qualities heading into next season.

“The team we’ll have, obviously it might be a little bit different when the time comes — you never know, we’ve got free agents and stuff like that,” Bridges said.

“It’s funny because I was just a role player, so coming in and being like the star, you feel that star treatment. I kind of don’t like it because I was just down there with those guys a couple of months ago. I don’t like all this s–t. But it’s just [about] winning and being selfless, not trying to just make everything about me.”

That kind of team-first ethos is what the Nets are trying to return to.

Take for example Royce O’Neale’s rally-killing inbounds turnover with the Nets down three points and 6.7 seconds left in their Game 3 loss to Philadelphia.

Bridges stepped up to take responsibility, refusing to throw his teammates under the bus.

It was in stark contrast to league MVP Joel Embiid saying “me and James can’t win it alone” after the 76ers’ Game 7 loss to Boston.

“You want your teammates to be happy, don’t want your teammates to ever feel like you’re just going to stab them in the back,” Bridges said on “The Pivot Podcast.”

“It’s just about me wanting to be a leader where I want to lead in a positive way, so if I do get on one of my teammates, they know it’s coming from the right place.

“As a leader, I’ll take all the blame, I’ll do whatever, I’ll try to help us win all the time. But if somebody f–ks up and I’m hot, you know I’m not just hot just to … some people yell to yell. That’s not who I am. I’m yelling because I’m frustrated, but it’s for the best of the team. So coming into next year, it’s just being a leader, and from the jump, just show how we should win. All about this year is winning. Everybody wants to get paid. I’m like, s–t, when you win, everybody eats.”

That’s the same sort of high character that Bridges brought to Villanova and then to Phoenix, the kind that the Nets are rapidly learning about.

“You guys are without a doubt going to see the person that he is,” Bridges’ father, Jack, told The Post. “Of course you wouldn’t know this without him being a part of your organization. So you guys will see that, the organization will see that, the community, the fans, the team. I’m sure his teammates already see it. He’s just a great kid, a great guy all around.”