To begin the 2025-26 season, the Nets are 3-14. The team is 3-7 over its last 10 and has lost two straight. Brooklyn is in a rebuilding phase after they drafted five first-round picks in the 2025 draft.
Recently, NBA insider Jake Fischer reported that one Nets player could be available for trade. He mentioned Brooklyn’s Nic Claxton as a potential trade candidate. Claxton is averaging a career-high 14.1 points per game this season. Jake Fischer reported that Claxton is expected to generate “incoming calls” about his availability.
Will Brooklyn make Nic Claxton available at the trade deadline?
Centers expected to be available on the trade market include:
Nic Claxton
Robert Williams III
Nick Richards
Jonathan Isaac
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With the first pick of the second round of the 2019 NBA draft, the Nets selected Nic Claxton out of Georgia. The 2025-26 season is Claxton’s seventh year with Brooklyn. He is the longest tenured player on Brooklyn’s roster. Through seven seasons, Claxton has been part of teams with different goals. Early in his career, the Nets were competing in the playoffs. In the two seasons, the Nets have been in a rebuilding mode.
In 2025-26, Brooklyn in 3-14 through their first 17 games. Nic Claxton has started all 17 games for the Nets this season. Early in his career, CLaxton was a player who couldn’t initiate the offense by himself. He needed to be in the pick-and-roll with a guard to be set up for an easy basket. That is no longer the case for Claxton.
Brooklyn’s Nic Claxton is expected to generate incoming calls to the rebuilding Nets about Claxton’s availability.
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Not many people know that Claxton started as a guard in high school. In ninth grade, he was only six-foot-two. By his senior season, Claxton was six-foot-eleven and transitioned to play center. His guard skills continue to show up on a nightly basis. Claxton has improved his ball-handling and finishing near the rim. That’s why NBA insider Jake Fischer believes Nic Claxton will generate “incoming calls” on his trade availability.
As a rebuilding team, it wouldn’t hurt the Nets to part ways with Nic Claxton. He’s one of their top players on the roster and is the starting center. If Brooklyn is trying to tank for a top pick in the 2025 NBA draft, trading Claxton is the right move. General manager Sean Marks will field calls ahead of the trade deadline in February. The price must be right for the Nets to part ways with the longest tenured player on their roster.
