The Brooklyn Nets will have some important decisions to make in the next couple of months as they will have to decide who they will be selecting in the 2025 NBA Draft in June. Thanks to a couple of trades Brooklyn made last offseason, they come into this Draft with four first-round picks and their first pick could be someone that can pour on the points.
In the latest edition of Jonathan Wasserman‘s 2025 NBA Mock Draft for Bleacher Report, he projected that the Nets would be selecting Texas guard Tre Johnson with the sixth overall pick. There is still plenty of the pre-draft process for teams and players to go through and until the first round of the Draft kicks off on Jun. 25, the players in the bottom half of the top-10 will continue to shift.
“Johnson has a reasonable claim to being the best scorer in this draft,” Wasserman wrote of Johnson. “Even better, he has enough shake and footwork to free himself and the ability to get buckets on the move. He can get overconfident in his shooting ability, but most coaches would prefer to dial that back then try to coax it out of a timid player.”
Over the course of the past couple of months, Brooklyn has been projected to select players like Johnson, Maryland center Derik Queen and Oklahoma guard Jeremiah Fears as those three players seem to make up the tier of players that follows Duke forward Cooper Flagg and Rutgers guard Dylan Harper. Flagg and Harper seem to be the consensus first and second overall picks, respectively, but it’s the players after that where the differences lie.
Not only that, but the Nets have the sixth-best Lottery odds, meaning that they have a 9.0% chance of getting the first overall pick along with a 37.2% chance of landing a pick within the top-4 of the Draft. With Brooklyn still looking to acquire as much talent during this rebuild, the franchise is hoping to get lucky enough to draft Flagg. If not, Johnson seems like the kind of guy that can still produce, maybe even like a former guard that came into the league with a lot of hype.
“The Mayo comparison may not seem favorable given the way his NBA career stalled out, but he was the third pick of the 2008 draft and went on to finish second in Rookie of the Year voting—ahead of the likes of Russell Westbrook, Kevin Love and Marc Gasol,” Wasserman wrote, comparing Johnson to former NBA player OJ Mayo. “There’s a non-zero chance Johnson becomes a go-to scorer, particularly if he can level up as a playmaker.”
