The final time the Nets rebuilt, they did it by sifting by means of the fallen prospects and reclamation tasks.
It seems to be like they’re following the identical blueprint this time round.
Brooklyn is present process a youth motion in what guarantees to be a rebuilding yr or two with no actual stress.
And the newest youth is Amari Bailey, who’s becoming a member of on an Exhibit 10 deal in a transfer first reported by Hoopshype and confirmed by The Submit.
The 20-year-old guard is the third youngest participant on the Nets roster behind Dariq Whitehead and Noah Clowney.
All three have been among the many 10 youngest gamers within the NBA final season, and will play various roles on a inexperienced Nets roster.
Whereas Clowney and Whitehead are each 2023 first-round picks and might be a part of Brooklyn’s rebuild, Bailey might be coming to subsequent month’s coaching camp seeking to earn his spot.
A former second-round choose, he averaged 2.3 factors in 6.5 minutes over simply 10 appearances as a rookie final season in Charlotte.
The 6-foot-3 guard is the prototype of a second probability flier that the Nets have gambled on up to now, to various levels of success.
Selecting up Spencer Dinwiddie and Joe Harris off the scrap heap have been residence runs, as was taking up devalued D’Angelo Russell and turning him into an All-Star.
Signing former No. 1 general choose Anthony Bennett was a swing and a miss.
Win some, lose some.
Now the Nets have added 23-year-old reclamation tasks Killian Hayes and Ziaire Williams, the previous an Exhibit 10 and the latter a Memphis Grizzlies wing who has reportedly appeared good in summer time exercises.
Bailey is the newest dart throw, a derailed highschool phenom that Brooklyn will hope to get again on observe.
The guard averaged 29.2 factors, 9.1 rebounds, and 6.5 assists as a junior at Sierra Canyon, and was named California Mr. Basketball.
Bailey was seen because the No. 1 general participant by each recruiting service coming into the summer time of his senior season, earlier than an harm that value him the AAU circuit and early elements of the season.
ESPN ranked him No. 5 in his 2022 highschool class, and he headed to UCLA the place he averaged 11.2 factors and three.8 boards in his lone collegiate season.
Additional accidents considerably slowed his development as he missed seven video games from Dec. 30 to Jan. 26, 2023 with a foot harm.
After he returned, and prime defender Jaylen Clark suffered a season-ending harm within the regular-season finale, Bailey each shouldered guarding the highest perimeter menace and boosted his personal scoring to 17.3 factors on 56.1 % taking pictures.
However he nonetheless fell to the second spherical of the draft.
Charlotte took Bailey forty first general, inking him to a two-way deal.
He was little-used by the Hornets, as an alternative spending a lot of the season with the affiliate Greensboro Swarm with whom he averaged 19.3 factors, 5 boards and 4.7 assists — albeit on horrid 20 % taking pictures from behind the arc.
With Hayes and Shake Milton anticipated to vie for level guard spots on the tail finish of the Nets’ roster, now they may have extra competitors.
