The Brooklyn Nets have an interesting offseason ahead of them as they have the choice of going in a variety of directions. The fact that the team made the 2023 NBA Playoffs as the sixth seed in the Eastern Conference shows that the current group is good enough to get to the postseason.
However, as most within the NBA space knows, being just good enough to make the playoffs every season and maybe get past the first round is not a recipe for eventually winning a championship. Being stuck in the middle in arguably the worst place to be in the league given the fact that you will never have a chance of drafting a difference-making kind of player and are unlikely to get close to winning a title.
For Brooklyn, if they decide to try to make their team into a championship contender, they will have to figure out who they will go after in free-agency. According to Mike Cruz of ClutchPoints, there are two players that the Nets should not give a second thought to bring back to Brooklyn: