Nets' Jordi Fernandez ready to coach whoever's taken in 2025 NBA Draft

USA Today

26-04-2025

Nets' Jordi Fernandez ready to coach whoever's taken in 2025 NBA Draft
The Brooklyn Nets will have some key decisions to make later this summer when they have to make some picks in the 2025 NBA Draft in late June. Brooklyn heads into the Draft with plenty of draft capital as they will have four first-round picks, but head coach Jordi Fernandez is not revealing much about what the plan is in terms of players to target or anything of that nature.
"Obviously, this is my first time as a head coach going through this process, so it's going to be nothing like what I've done before," Fernandez said, per Lucas Kaplan of NetsDaily. Fernandez, native of Badalona, Spain, was at P.S. 1 in Brooklyn on Wednesday to celebrate Sant Jordi's Day, Catalonia's (Fernandez's hometown) favorite day for love and literature. Following the celebration, Fernandez was asked what every Nets fans is thinking about at this moment.
"Yeah, it's a good question, probably a question more for [general manager] Sean [Marks] than it is for me," Fernandez said, per Brian Lewis of the New York Post, when asked whether the Nets would trade one of their picks to lessen the load on the player development staff. "I'll be ready to coach whatever group we put together. And the coaches, as we always try to do, [will] help them get better and show them the way and the habits."
While the Nets have been thinking about the draft since last summer when they traded Mikal Bridges to the New York Knicks for a bevy of draft picks and got some of their own picks back from the Houston Rockets, it is still relatively early in the NBA Draft process. However, Saturday is an important day given that it's the deadline for NBA Early Entry.
NBA Early Entry is the process where eligible players declare their intention to participate in the NBA Draft before the draft while also retaining the option to withdraw and return to their respective institutions. Players who enter the Draft through Early Entry would have to withdraw by 5 PM ET on June 15 if they wanted to return to college next season.
After Early Entry, the next Draft-related activity for the Nets is the NBA G League Combine from May 9 to May 11, the NBA Draft Combine from May 11 to May 18, and the NBA Lottery on May 12. Since Brooklyn won't know where their own first-round pick lies until May 12, the Nets are in a spot where they are hoping to get lucky enough to get the No. 1 pick and the right to draft Duke forward Cooper Flagg as that outcome could change their plans significantly.