Overview
- Multiple reports link Tennessee forward Nate Ament to the Nets and at least one workout between Ament and Brooklyn has been reported, but no selection is confirmed.
- Scouts praise Ament’s size and playmaking — he is listed at 6-foot-10 with a near-seven-foot wingspan and can handle the ball for his size — while others worry about his thin frame and lack of strength.
- Analysts highlight concrete efficiency concerns from his Tennessee season, including a 33.3 percent three-point rate on heavy volume and an unusually low two-point percentage for a 6-foot-10 player, per Bart Torvik data cited in coverage.
- GM Sean Marks has said the Nets will take the best player available regardless of position, a stance that makes a risky, non-consensus choice like Ament plausible under Brooklyn’s recent draft pattern.
- Brooklyn’s final move is open for two-plus weeks before the June 23 draft and will hinge on late workouts, medicals, limited trade options and the possibility that reported interest is strategic signaling rather than a settled plan.