Lucas Kaplan

Writer at NetsDaily

Writer at Swish Theory

Writing @NetsDaily @SwishTheory previously @SIS_Hoops

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New York Liberty take Adja Kane, French stash, with final pick of 2025 WNBA Draft

1 week ago | netsdaily.com | Lucas Kaplan

The spectacle of the 2025 WNBA Draft hardly involved the team of the host city. After years of trades and pick-swaps that built a championship winner, and a roster poised to repeat this season, the New York Liberty had just one of the 38 selections on Monday night: pick #38,Just waiting for 38 ⏰— Stewie (@breannastewart) April 15, 2025With the final selection of the night, GM Jonathan Kolb’s front office took Adja Kane, from France .
Sean Marks: Brooklyn Nets don’t want to ‘lock ourselves into being a 6-7 seed’

1 week ago | netsdaily.com | Lucas Kaplan

Photo by Nathaniel S. Butler/NBAE via Getty Images General Manager Sean Marks actually said the damn thing. Following a predictable, if slightly more competent than expected season for the Brooklyn Nets in 2024-25, Marks and Head Coach Jordi Fernández took the podium HSS Training Facility for their joint exit interview on Monday afternoon.
Brooklyn Nets lose season finale to New York Knicks, 113-105

1 week ago | netsdaily.com | Lucas Kaplan

Photo by Jordan Bank/Getty Images On Sunday afternoon, the Brooklyn Nets played the last regular-season game they'll play for about half-a-year. By October, they will look quite different. Only Head Coach Jordi Fernández is truly guaranteed to still be here in six months time, during which the franchise will have to make some tough decisions. Perhaps arranging the Mikal Bridges trade(s) was a complex process, but the decision to say ‘yes’ to the New York Knicks’ offer was easy.
Summer of our lives: Inside Brooklyn Nets year in the shadows

1 week ago | netsdaily.com | Lucas Kaplan

Photo by Jesse D. Garrabrant/NBAE via Getty Images Everybody loves winning. It’s the trying to win that hurts. The Brooklyn Nets, in 2024-25, were wholly and undeniably freed from this burden for the first time since I was in high school. That was the Sean Kilpatrick Era of Nets basketball, and I loved those teams in absentia.
Season nears end as Brooklyn Nets lose to Minnesota Timberwolves, 117-91

1 week ago | netsdaily.com | Lucas Kaplan

Photo by Stephen Maturen/Getty Images The Brooklyn Nets played their penultimate game of the season on Friday night, their final road outing. It came against a Minnesota Timberwolves team that, despite having played the night before, needed the game for playoff-seeding purposes. Brooklyn had also played the night before, though it was a completely non-competitive loss, and even more regulars would be out on Friday night than Thursday.
Brooklyn Nets smile through win against New Orleans Pelicans, 119-114

2 weeks ago | netsdaily.com | Lucas Kaplan

Photo by Jesse D. Garrabrant/NBAE via Getty Images “This is not the end of anything. This is not the end of the season, this is just the next game, the next game going into the the most important summer of our lives.”So said Jordi Fernández before the 21-57 New Orleans Pelicans visited his 25-53 Brooklyn Nets on Tuesday evening.
Remnants of Brooklyn Nets lose to carcass of Toronto Raptors, 120-109

2 weeks ago | netsdaily.com | Lucas Kaplan

Photo by Jesse D. Garrabrant/NBAE via Getty Images The Brooklyn Nets and Toronto Raptors sat so many guys on Sunday after that it would just be easier to list the starting lineups and go from there... Yep, that’s Reece Beekman and Drew Timme bookending Brooklyn’s lineup, each making their first career starts, as YES Network pointed out.
Brooklyn’s Next Nets: Was Noah Clowney’s season a disappointment?

2 weeks ago | netsdaily.com | Lucas Kaplan

Photo by Justin Casterline/Getty Images Noah Clowney joined the playoff-hungry Brooklyn Nets as an 18-year-old taken toward the end of the first round, a “project” that wasn’t going to get project-type minutes out the gate. A year later, he wasn’t quite the face of the franchise, but its only emblem. He had parlayed solid, definitionally under-the-radar G League time into two weeks of exhilarating NBA flashes.
Brooklyn Nets lose plodding game to Minnesota Timberwolves, 105-90

2 weeks ago | netsdaily.com | Lucas Kaplan

Photo by Nathaniel S. Butler/NBAE via Getty Images Jordi Fernández, in his rookie year as an NBA head coach, has been the MVP of the Brooklyn Nets. With it being impossible to truly quantify the value of coaching, Cam Johnson is another strong candidate for team MVP, but Fernández’s strong debut goes beyond X’s and O’s, game management. In year 0 of a rebuild, a bad team who hasn’t yet had the opportunity to acquire exciting young talent, plays extraordinarily hard.
Noah Clowney ruled out for season, as Brooklyn Nets inch toward a monumental summer

3 weeks ago | netsdaily.com | Lucas Kaplan

The energy at HSS Training Center, with just six games left in the Brooklyn Nets’ season, is still high. “These guys do a great job day-to-day like I’ve always said, and the energy is always good. You guys can see it here,” said Jordi Fernández at Wednesday’s practice. And yet, despite the eye-blinding smiles from guys that are, above all, happy to be here, like the post-practice Drew Timme and Tosan Evbuomwan shooting group, the day began with some bad news.