Brooklyn Nets center Day’Ron Sharpe is coming off the best season of his four-year NBA career after being the 29th overall pick in the 2021 NBA Draft out of North Carolina. Despite this being a tough season to play through with Brooklyn finishing with a 26-56 record, Sharpe was one of the players who benefitted from the team rebuilding with the hopes of being a playoff contender sometime soon.
Sharpe, 23, averaged 7.9 points, 6.6 rebounds, and 1.8 assists per game while shooting 52.1% from the field and 24.4% from three-point land. In what has been the case for many of his teammates as the result of this season under head coach Jordi Fernandez, Sharpe achieved career-highs across the board in points, rebounds, and assists per gage, but he did see noticeable dips in his shooting percentages as well.
Part of the reason that Sharpe’s field-goal percentage was only 52.1%, his career average coming into the 2024-25 season was 56.5%, was due to the fact that he was more willing to attempt three-pointers, especially when he was the trailing big man on the fastbreak. Fernandez wanted to play a style on the offensive end in which everyone was a threat from any spot on the floor and that allowed players like Sharpe to see career-highs in shot attempts per game.
What was worrisome for Sharpe over the course of the season was the injuries that he suffered during the campaign such as the left hamstring strain that he sustained during training camp that caused him to miss the first 21 games of the season. Once Sharpe returned to the lineup, he was as good as he has ever been in his career, but he also ended the season with a right knee sprain that forced him to miss the last 10 games.
This was the best time for Sharpe to have a career-year as he is entering this summer as a restricted free-agent and with Brooklyn projected to have the most cap space in the league, he could be in a Nets uniform for next season. As the Nets head into an important offseason that could represent plenty of change for the franchise, here are some of Sharpe’s best highlights from the season:
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