Trendon Watford back with the Brooklyn Nets? And how the offseason is unfolding

Trendon Watford back with the Brooklyn Nets? And how the offseason is unfolding

coming up the Brooklyn Nets continue their offseason agenda offering the qualifying figure to one Trend in Watford will he ultimately return as we take a look at the landscape of the NBA players that may become available and how the Brooklyn Nets should be watching highlevel trades so they can go ahead and nibble Around The Fray we dive in coming up [Music] next you are locked on Nets your daily Brook L Net’s podcast part of the locked on podcast Network your team everyday I yes my friends it is the locked on Nets podcast right in locked on podcast Network it’s your team the Brooklyn Nets every single day he’s Doug Nory I’m Adam Marik we thank you as always for making us your first list of the day we are 100% free on all those great platforms and tell you today’s episode is brought to you by FanDuel make every moment more right now all summer long FanDuel is hooking up all customers with a boost or a bonus daily that’s right there’s something for everyone every day all summer long visit fanduel.com locked on to get started today and Doug we got news and notes man there’s a lot of things to break down here starting first and foremost talk about cam Johnson I think and interesting angles around the NBA and his potential Market but trendon Watford a player that you and I both liked when the Nets took a flyer on them at the beginning of this last off season at least getting the qualifying offer does not officially make his return to Brooklyn just yet yeah reported by Brian Lewis who’s been really really dialed in on that stuff really for a long time and this this offseason specifically um they’re going to extend the qualifying offer to Watford just a programing note we are recording this on Saturday afternoon so um in sort of in preparation for for the week ahead but um the all intentions seem to be that they’re going to extend them a qualifying offer obviously a qualifying offer does not mean that he is back on the team it just means he’s made made a restrictive free agent can still shop the market see if there’s any other um you know potential signings out there there might be by the way too I mean some of these teams are in sort of some of the we’re seeing this really um unfold here in the landscape of everyone kind of getting schooled up on the new CBA pretty quickly here and how and how it could be really really just um prohibitive to just really spend extra money so guys who actually have NBA skills who might come a little on the cheaper side for maybe multiple years um could have a little more value in this year than other years and going forward but so I’m not sure if there’s going to be a market for Watford I suspect someone probably sees something in him just because you know the size the versatility he’s still not that old at 23 showed enough last year so we’ll see how it goes my guess is back in a Brooklyn Nets uniform but just mostly putting the asteris here is saying qualifying offer does not mean see you for 100% in the Net’s uniform next season like it’s there’s still there still could be a market for him which with the Nets would affect would be able to match if they if they wanted to yeah and I think too you know when it comes to Watford maybe as you just mentioned there about matching it okay there’s a world where certainly other teams may have a market for him but it’s not like you’re thinking or being worried about if you’re Brooklyn some team comes flying in here with an offer that’s so sizable you say oh we can’t match that right it’s probably be going to be something within a reasonable range where even if it’s a two or threee offer from another team it’s not going to be prohibitive for the Brooklyn Nets to bring him back and match that offer you can make the case that actually be valuable to them because over the next two or three seasons whether there’s another trade to be made down the line he’s of the right age and seems to be on the uptick here where you’d say okay good to have him on the roster and you could also make the argument case that if you’re looking at developing players as we said he he showed some good things this past season with Brooklyn but I like the idea now that you’re clearing away we think as we’ll talk about cam Johnson and Dorian finy Smith here a bit more clearing away all the veterans well yeah I’d like a sample size where you give him some more extended run at point forward minutes where you see how he fits with Clowney and Claxton and Thomas right I you’ll now know on a stronger level as you work your way towards a 2025 draft which young players are going to be deserving of being a part of that core Beyond this season yeah and you know the Nets are in a position now where like they need to make sort of like long-term decisions about everybody I or anybody I will say with guys on the roster that are still on the younger side of things it makes sense to sort and they’ve shown anything on an NBA level which I think Watford has um that it makes sense to sort of keep these guys around over the next couple years especially a guy with versatility that can just do a bunch of different things so you’re not boxed in you know around one or two ideas even when you know the tank is GNA be on out you know with him it’s like well does he do any one particular thing awesomely no but he is showed himself to be like you know fairly versatile like I said 68 230 not a ton of volume but 39% from three over the course of the last 12 games which is when he actually started playing real minutes um the assist rate was you know decent they did have him playing point guard at times he rebounded the heck out of the ball like there yep were like real signs I think of something and we already know that the Nets at least right now based on the current roster I mean really don’t have any ball handling at all and even for a team in the tank at some point you have to have somebody here that can dribble the ball and so there’s besides shudder besides cam really I’m sure they’re going to bring in some very cheap point guard here uh you would think but they just really don’t have much in the way of on ball stuff at all even if Watford is like not the traditional archetype around that so I just think there’s enough reasons here to do it and you’d have to think can’t be 100% ass sure about this but you’d have to think like almost no matter how things shake out for the Nets especially where he is and you should always just take the most money that the opportunity here will be the most just because of how the Nets are set up right now like yes he’s coming back here it’s hard to imagine him having a bigger role on a team that he could potentially have this season simply because we know the Nets are probably just going to play very fast and loose with the minutes almost definitely from day one and the other thing that I’ll just mention here is we’ll move into Cameron Johnson we actually do have the layout of how the figures look for Nicholas claxon’s contract as well as he returns back to Brooklyn um but other guys this was the only player for Brooklyn that needed it had a qualifying offer deadline here other players Dennis Smith Jr Lonnie Walker well I guess you wouldn’t take it off the table for them to be back we talked about this previously in the off season it just seems highly unlikely that there’ be any reason to go to those players right now relative to probably lower cost guys so just kind of a roster note there around there’s nothing else really for the Brooklyn Nets to accomplish here in terms of In-House guys or decisions they were going to make and certain players mid you know mid 20s guys that maybe had roles here a year ago it just isn’t going to behoove Brooklyn to look at them I think returning so we’ll continue to fast forward ourselves towards cam Johnson an interesting note when it comes to this off season here in a second and where his value lies and how Brooklyn may have to navigate some tricky waters 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difference between mid 20s and mid-30s money in terms of millions of dollars it actually is restrictive in terms of how you can build out your roster I don’t look at it as an inherently negative thing actually think in the long run this is going to help teams and the league overall probably balance out and end up having some pretty good players end up on some lower level teams sooner than expected yeah I’m not exactly sure it’s like it’s still I think we’re still in that sort of I I do think we’re it’s always gonna be the big spending is GNA usually help right the more you spend is always going to help teams I think that’s always obvious and you know as we’ve always said too sometimes it’s not the talent it’s the contract right like there’s lots of guys who are really good and then you just only compare it to the cont contract was where it starts to be a problem right we so like you know you wonder why male Bridges can go for six for six first round picks and it’s like well one that his buddies on the team helps but two is the contract’s still amazing like these are that’s that contract allows you to like kind of go and pay OG and adobi all the money in the world right like these contracts the one and so when you look at like you know Deonte Murray and Trey young it’s like well who’s better well I Tre is better but who’s like who’s easier to make a team around it’s like well do just spend more like you can spend Mone and who’s easier to maybe move again if you need to who’s easier to bring in now then still then pivot off of in two years if you needed to right right so these guys like you know LaVine Beal these guys are like are they bad basketball players no no they’re not bad but are they bad relatives like 50 million a years like more yeah that’s where you just get yourself in real trouble and so you know and that and honestly to some degree it’s like it’s kind of the case with Cam Johnson DFS right it’s like these guys any team would add these guys we just are probably pressing up against the the number at which they feel comfortable doing it like this is like and I think this is going to be the theme sort of as we see it and they look there’s still trades unfolding The Summer’s gonna have movement here like you know the Jazz floating Lor Market in like there’s going to be more stuff that happens here and there’s some chance that Cam and and DFS are off the are off but it’s like it just gets and I we’ve said this so many episodes now but it’s just worth repeating it’s like it just gets a little tricky around around the money and that that’s where it always kind of I look it’s it’s just like in regular life that’s where you just start having the conversations like what’s the cost it’s like not too different than any other thing you buy in your life it’s like yeah would you do it for free sure would you do it for X well now we gotta think about it it’s just like it’s like it’s not too different it’s not too different in this situation so I mean they’re gonna I think they’ll move but I just don’t think necessarily it’s the easiest thing in the world as we see it on Shi but but they are for sure guys that could get thrown in as like other you know they’re three team deals and stuff like that like I we could even see that kind of maybe unfold for the Nets yeah so that’s why when it comes to cam Johnson there’s two factors I think here and and neither of them are you know prohibitively restrictive about moving him off of here and I don’t think that it’s the end of the world for the Brooklyn Nets to have to say yeah it’s going to be a little bit trickier maybe we end up taking a little bit less than we want whatever it’s going to look like I I don’t view this as being an issue so I think after the shift into the rebuild model trading Mel Bridges to the Knicks it’s easier to have everything kind of be camp in yeah this is okay we can choose to make these decisions over a longer timeline and we don’t have to feel like we need something to come back ahead before I get into it yeah yeah yeah so I want to say one more thing I actually meant to say this before but it’s it’s worth repeating now the other part of keeping these guys around is that while we are and I said it last time I just gonna expand on it for one second while we’re talking about tanking and losing and going for these two things to note one is the lottery odds have flattened so like finishing dead last if you lose zero games you have the same Lottery odds as the team that lost the next closest which could be 20 or won 20 more than you right so yeah you can go 0 and 82 and your odds don’t get a lot better by losing 20 if another team goes 20 and 72 or 20 62 so so that’s one thing so what we often see from some of these T tanking teams is everyone does try for a while right like yes they try early on they’re going to like try to win games having better around to do that and like have a real product that you can like sell your fans on then buy tickets it’s not the worst thing you can always shift into lose everything in like March right like there’s plenty of games to lose at the end of the season so just be even if these guys were on the team to start the season it’s just like not the worst thing and it wouldn’t even be the worst thing if the net started like five and five or 10 and0 like like they can just like there’s just they’re not going to by the way but yeah yeah there’s games to lose later when everyone’s done the little sideline handshake agreement that we’re not trying anymore but you you really don’t see that too much in the beginning of the year you don’t see it at all really no no because yeah because you’re still whether whether or not it seems obvious you still go with the Hope Springs Eternal at the start of every new season regardless of what the agenda is and you gotta sell your guys on this toor you gotta sell you gotta sell your guys on it too like you gotta you can’t just go tell Cam Johnson and DFS and cam Thomas hey it’s like and Nick lax’s like lose like it you’re not going to every like and so you can just do the first 50 games 60 games where you just don’t really have this mind the Nets are going to lose plenty anyway so that’s why I just mean like having these guys around isn’t the worst thing sorry no no it’s fine and also on that note too because you go back and look at this draft that just happened right now for 2024 right so the Atlanta Hawks end up spiking the first overall pick they had a 3% chance of that and only a 13.9% chance of being in the top four teams like in terms of best percentage to land number one overall was Washington who fell a second you also Detroit who fell all the way to five and then even teams like Charlotte and Portland 13.3 and 13.2% chance to get number one overall they had 50% chances to get in the top four and that didn’t happen for them so it ends up shaking out differently as as we all know four and a half percent chance for that Brooklyn pick that went to Houston to land at the number one overall still got top three so it’s going to flesh out the way that it does and it’s a good point to remind everybody this isn’t about getting the absolute worst record in the NBA especially in this deep class it’s just about being in that window and there’s time to achieve that goal now on cam Johnson though specifically there’s two things here so one element that I think factors in in trying to move him and I saw this care of uh lock on Lakers Andy kamenski was pointing out in regards to D’angelo Russell they’re bringing him back on the optin doesn’t mean that they’re going to keep him necessarily but he referenced how D’Angelo Russell was really important to the regular season as much as the postseason for the Lakers and it reminded me that when you look at cam Johnson who who played in 58% of his career as a starter came as a Brooklyn Net and he only has 124 career starts versus 283 career games why because he’s been injured a lot he’s only played over 65 games in his career one time so I think the health factor for him is is a big part of teams looking at him and maybe when you talk about what you’re willing to give up listen you guys want to get off the contract you want to move this veteran player you’re in tank great but we’re taking some risk here around a guy that may only play in 40 to 50 games for us this year and even if he does play in 65 games it only increases the chances that maybe he won’t be available for all of the playoffs I think that’s a big factor just in terms of what he represents as a three and D type player the model that he is yeah it’s great but you have to you have to calculate for the risk in him not being available for a full season yeah oh yeah that that’s definitely built in with him at this point right like I don’t think that’s um I don’t think that’s even under debate right like he’s just not he’s not the epitome of Health it’s just it’s just the way it’s just the way it is and honestly I think that’s probably the other thing I mean that plus the contract it’s like not just like to set it and forget a guy I mean one of the reasons you could sell a guy like Bridges really easily is like he plays in every game now is that projectable just just because you played in every game does it mean you’ll play in every game going forward of course not like usually past experience doesn’t like predicate just like future health all the time but right at least we know you’ll go out there under suboptimal conditions like that matters right like it’s a it’s like the it’s you know sort of the opposite of the Ben Simmons thing not even the injury related just like hey he sat out a whole season so okay like he can do it um he might do it again with with Cam it’s like he just had he’s just been injured like kind of every single year right so I and you just can’t and by the way last year was like a bunch of soft tissue like stuff that just kind of was reoccurring it wasn’t even it was like oh his hamstrings are bad again and like oh man okay that’s that’s kind of rough so it’s yeah it’s it’s there’s there is some risk one other thing here on him him as well before we talk about a little bit of the roster shift and obviously a change in what matters here in this version of the rebuild for the Brooklyn Nets notable that when they signed the contract for cam Johnson it included a lot of unlikely incentives there’s another factor for teams bringing him in over the next three seasons he has 3.4 3.1 and 3.4 million in what are considered to be unlikely bonuses unlikely bonuses by Brooklyn Net standards and where their trajectory was if you put him on to if he gets plugged in into team X Contender as a starter and is expected or lucks out and plays the bulk of the season and goes into a deep playoff run there’s a world where other teams are also factoring in that’s not just that reasonable contract it’s potentially pushing us into apron territories depending on how that season unfolds for them oh yeah for sure I mean like I mean I think you know did they outline exactly what the bonuses were I know he didn’t hit them um I think didn’t do he didn’t do it for Brooklyn part of them I think was games played but sometimes he’s bonuses had to do with like playoff stuff and and just like sort of like overall like maybe just like really super like very very high in statistical stuff but it’s you know if he gets plugged into a good team like he was on the Lakers right I mean the Lakers you could really see him you could see him really fitting in well there right like the the part where a shooter like him around LeBron like that makes a lot of sense and by the way the other thing with LeBron too like with the Lakers why things could be lining up is now this was reported under like the mid-level exception piece but he did opt out of his he LeBron today opted out of his player option with the intent to resign and there’s speculation that he’s going to resign at a lower number so they can hit that mle and be able to bring guy in now cam wouldn’t factor in under that but the idea where he’s gonna take less money so they can bring in more money he would Factor under those circumstances so it’ll be interesting to see where that ends up going but LeBron looks like he’s going to take less money just to to maybe be able to feeli the contender around him and and his boy um his boy his actual boy his son yeah yeah between him and his boy not Anthony Davis his actual son who was on the team uh yeah listen when you’re 39 years old you all start to take these things into account and for the maybe I heard this talked about too for the first time in his career say Okay normally like I’m about you’re gonna pay me every Buck because I’m worth every Buck this is an instance where I’m willing to kind of get a little bit flexible here coming up in a second not only the final details on the Nicholas Claxton contract but also what this rebuild is relative to the last time Brooklyn did it in that flashy D’Angelo Russ Russell excuse me lead eror we’ll get into that to close out in just one moment all right so as we close out today’s locked on Net’s episode reminder get us on YouTube get us on your podcast feeds we’re doing it all summer long five days a week and um we’re really good at it I I would say I’m not I’m not gonna be unabashed about it I think we do a great job when we talk about Doug the Nicholas CL claing contract here just first and foremost they return him on a 40-year deal is actually escalating money unlike say the Cameron Johnson one where they tried to make it palatable down the road 22.3 ex escalating up to in 2728 27.6 million I the only thing I’m interested about with him generally speaking is how quickly we might start to hear going through next season I think potentially oh is Nicholas Claxton a part of the long-term rebuild here or is this still viable and where does the contract number look and what teams are interested in him and how does this 22 to$ 27 million number look very favorable for other teams like that’s I think the next discussion for for Nicholas casson’s career which is a bit of a shame because he ends up falling as we said when it was miscast parts in Brooklyn well now going forward he’s actually one of the older guys that’s going to be on this roster 25 26 years old that all that still seems miscast in the short-term future for this team well h100 million can take the sting off that pretty quickly I would think I I think he finds it palatable I think he’s okay with that yeah so like I I think that like that probably that part of it is makes it um a little easier a little softer Landing as we will say in terms of like if every we could we probably say pretty confidently the career worked out right when uh when you’re getting h100 million doll but the part where the part where it’s a as long as he’s playing at a high defensive like rate two years from now and with the cap going up I think that’s like what like 18% of the cap like I think that maybe less um he’s sitting right now and then deescalate to under 15% 15.8 now le and then under 15 by the final year right so only get better probably that’s just gonna be fine that’s gonna be fine as a tradeable contract I really don’t think he’s part of the next version of the Nets is my guess at like 27 um and there’s just better chance they can just probably get something else as along the the terms of the rebuild down the line so the fact that the money doesn’t the the fact that the money ticks up a little bit I like that’s not a big deal and by the way over the next two years when there’s G to be no money on the books like that’s not the worst thing either too right so it’s like you know you in need to get that salary for exactly they’re gonna have to I mean like for next year they got something like 70 million total on the books like they’re just going to have to bring in these bad contracts at some point they’re not going to sign a big free agent you wouldn’t think and so at some point this money is gonna have to come on so the the fact that it kind of ticks up a little bit and it’s still under you know 15 16% whatever like you’re just in fine fine shape with this contract and like I said as long as he can keep dialed in on the defensive end as long as other people other teams can kind of see it which I think they’re going to I think that this is just it’s just totally fine and do I think he’s part of that next iteration probably not maybe maybe he’s like right on the borderline he’s right on the borderline with age where it’s where you could probably still see it depending on how things shake out and depending how long it goes look like this is a this is an unknown man it’s all good to say hey this two years and we’ll see how it goes you got to still have things go right you got to hit the lot of the lottery odds right you got to hit some of these other kind of you know incidental guys right they’re GNA have a lot of bites at the Apple with draft picks but sometimes these things can get prolonged and so it’s just a little hard to know and that’s why I think the return contract on four years is good for for Brooklyn I mean I think it’s good overall but to your point well okay give me the 2025 deep draft class and we Spike High we get we get one of the top three picks fantastic give me 2026 and have it go pretty well or somewhere in the muddled Middle Ground the bottom line is though with cap flexibility you can sit there and be ready to go ahead and outright pursue a free agent on the market you still have all these draft picks so you can be making a choice as claxon is entering the third year of this contract and say are we ready to maybe make a little bit of a push here are we you know surging towards the playoffs again claxon’s a great guy to keep around for that maybe they bring him back on another contract or not even for the negative but if it doesn’t quite land the way you want great where the offers as he reaches 27 and 28 you go ahead and continue to replenish that draft Capital because I I I cannot State this heavily enough when it comes to this rebuild the importance of Brooklyn now managing taking in some bad contracts and getting an extra pick here an extra pick there finding guys that maybe other teams can’t afford to sign over the next couple of seasons and getting to deadlines and then holding an auction for their services that’s the way you sustain this Beyond this first rebuild where you always have options and assets to work with like this should be an engine that regardless of you on court success should always Propel the flexibility for this organization for the next decade plus like that’s the the precipice they’re on right now as long as they execute relatively soundly and it seems like Shawn Marx has done that at least initially with the male trade and those guys are not going to be like really high cost guys to start right like the idea here is that everyone is either sort of a distressed asset or an unknown um and the Nick claxon you know the hand ringing around the Nick claxon contract specifically before he signed it was hey they might need like literally every dollar right like if they’re gonna actually try to go for this thing and go for one of these 6070 million guys like they’re gonna literally need every single dollar at that point and at that point overpaying even by a couple million on a contract like this could be a problem it’s just not that’s just not the problem anymore and so that’s why we’re not worried about because all the guys you’re talking about if they go Reclamation route which they’re I’m almost for sure going to is and it’s a little different too because last time they had to go for all these Reclamation guys like you said they had to because they had no picks this time they have a ton of picks so it is a little different um but there just are going to be guys that are just gonna show up and I my joke every time is that I love when I just love when a team releases a guy just to watch every net fan come out and say they like that guy like all you gotta do I like them coming out it’s it’s it’s it’s awesome it’s awesome it’s so funny because it’s like oh Brandon Boston like oh he looked great in a Nets uniform I’m like if you watch more than six minutes of Brandon Boston basketball i’ shocked shocked it’s okay you embarrass for you I’d be sad for you it’s like the scheduled the scheduled tweets that are just so hilarious to me it’s like literally anytime a guy from another team comes available you have the group that comes that swoops in and says I could see it I could see it I can see him in net un Pi them up well and that’s that’s my last my last highle note about this which the bulk of the Nets fan base seems very much to understand unlike the last time they went through this this rebuild when they brought in D’Angelo Russell on the contract and you had guys like Spencer dwy and Joe Harris and it was yeah you spiked on players that other teams had disregarded as not being viable those guys don’t matter right now that is not what’s important for Brooklyn and again it seems like the fan base understands this it’s just about getting Financial flexibility going to next off season eating some bad contracts for extra draft Capital the player need not matter it does taking on bogdanovich’s contract in the Mel Bridges deal nobody cared it’s totally fine picking up an expiring deal here or there you do not need to identify Diamonds in the Rough right now if you are the Brooklyn Nets organization the Diamonds in the Rough they’re not even that rough they’re like pretty close to being diamonds and they’re in the 2025 draft and they have last names like flag right like that’s where the gold mine is for the Brooklyn Nets that’s why it is very different than the last time they had to do it as you mentioned have draft picks have high have high control of your own draft picks the Nets didn’t pick top 10 the last time they did that was in 2010 like that’s the version of this franchise that has tried to cycle through this Spike sometimes trade it all away for Superstars have it not work out multiple times now you’re back to neutral where you get to dictate your own Tempo and your own future and I just think that everybody needs to settle into that and I’m saying this somewhat with a bit of with a bit of pace behind my voice but I mean it in a good way like this is a sigh of relief this can be cool common collected going forward for Brooklyn yeah look you’re always value hunting it’s just it’s just how like they had to Value hunt before they had no choice like they had to go extreme we need the value because we need to compete that we don’t need to compete you always want to bring in guys and pay them less than they’re worth like that’s always gonna be the goal that’s just goal for any NBA team no matter where you are on the timeline the difference I think what you’re saying is last time they had no other option like they had no picks right they had no cap space they had no way to they had cap space but they had no reason for any like anyone who was good to ever want to play there and so it it was it was necessary to go and find everyone’s trash and make it their treasure yes it happens this time great it happens but it’s not it it’s for sure not number one on the list before it was I think it’s right that like sum like summarizing what you’re saying I think it’s like that was number one on the list before now it’s just part of like the regular standard operation that was number one and there was no number two or three now it’s on the list and there’s several other viable more viable option do it this way or you have nobody like that’s what that’s what it was before now it’s kind there’s option now which as we all know that’s the way you want to operate a franchise with only one option and a pretty narrow window to succeed yeah totally brutal okay we’re gonna get out of here much appreciated every said everyone that’s sticking with us I I say sticking with us growing I mean the the show has seen some of the best numbers like I mean you know look Trad Mel has helped for sure but just in terms of just people that still want to talk about nets all summer long I mean go find anywhere else is doing it five days a week you won’t we are the only ones out there doing it happy to do it love doing it and appreciate everyone that’s been with us this whole time and the many many many many new listeners that are still there make sure you subscribe to lock. 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The Brooklyn Nets have extended a qualifying offer to Trendon Watford, who could be on his way back next season. Other teams can still step in, though it’s a solid first move. Watford’s services could be in demand in the coming seasons.

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