The Brooklyn Nets had five first-round draft picks. The results didn't impress.

While the rebuilding Brooklyn Nets had a record five first-round picks in this week's NBA Draft,  no one thinks they knocked it out of the park.

So is this really going to sell tickets, as the promotion at right suggests?

(Full and half seasons are said to start at $47/ticket, and quarter season at $43, but few if any at those prices are available.)

Brooklyn Nets Select Five Players in First Round of 2025 NBA Draft stated the press release, which chose not to highlight any:

• BYU guard Egor Demin (8), a native of Moscow
• French pro guard Nolan Traoré (19)
• University of North Carolina guard/forward Drake Powell (22, thanks to a trade)
• German pro guard Ben Saraf, a native of Israel (26)
• University of Michigan forward/center Danny Wolf (27)

Brooklyn Nets have left us with more questions than answers, wrote Lucas Kaplan of NetsDaily, who quoted sources as calling the overall impact "insanity,” “bewildering,” or conflcting:

That’s what it comes down to. None of their picks felt like plus-value, and they don’t even fit together. The odds of Demin, Traoré, and Saraf all developing into good NBA players was slim enough, but on the same team it’s microscopic. [Coach] Jordi Fernández is great, but is he a miracle worker?

CBS gave the draft a D+ grade:

Brooklyn isn't afraid to take swings, and you have to respect it, but this was pretty underwhelming. The Nets (and who knows if they could've done this) were better off consolidating some of their draft picks to move around in the first round.

The Ringer classified the Nets among the draft's losers:

The strategy is clear, if a bit unimaginative: There have to be at least a couple of darts in the lot that’ll stick. The Nets have consistently mortgaged their future in a desperate hunt for win-now glory, but they were finally in a position to take the scenic route. Still, there wasn’t any compelling offer that could have tempted them to consolidate all those picks?

ESPN gave the Nets a C+:

Brooklyn is betting on developing a remarkable number of teenagers, many of them with overlapping skill sets...

Drafting so many raw players should help the Nets' efforts to land in the lottery again in 2026, the last year they control their first-round pick before the Houston Rockets get it in 2027.