Nets point guard position preview for 2025-26 NBA season

The Brooklyn Nets are heading into the 2025-26 NBA season with the expectation of being one of the worst teams in the league amidst the early stages of the rebuild. Brooklyn did not do much in the way of improving the roster for the goal of making it to the playoffs, but they made various moves to set the franchise up for maximizing the draft process.

The Nets appear to be set at the shooting guard (Cam Thomas), small forward (Michael Porter Jr.), and center (Nic Claxton), while the point guard and power forward positions still have to be figured out. When it comes to the point guard spot, Brooklyn overhauled the position by essentially drafting three point guards in the 2025 NBA Draft in Egor Demin, Nolan Traore, and Ben Saraf.

Ironically enough, point guard was one position that the Nets have been shifting around for the past few seasons once Kyrie Irving was traded to the Dallas Mavericks during the 2022-23 season. With that being said, the Nets head into the upcoming season with some questions to answer at the point guard spot so here is the preview of what fans can expect in the 2025-26 campaign:

Starter: Egor Demin

As of this writing, it seems that Demin is going to be the starter given how he performed in the Las Vegas Summer League in July after being taken with the eighth overall pick in the 2025 NBA Draft. There is a chance that players like Tyrese Martin and Danny Wolf could see some time at the point guard spot depending on how head coach Jordi Fernandez wants to tinker with certain lineups.

Demin, 19, will have to address certain issues in his game when it comes to his ability to spread the floor with his shooting and create opportunities for himself off the dribble. In Las Vegas, Demin might have turned down the volume on the noise surrounding his shooting, but his inability to put pressure on the rim without getting a screen was concerning to see. He will have to figure it out on the fly.

Depth: Kobe Bufkin, Nolan Traore, Ben Saraf

In what looked to be a three-man battle for the starting point guard spot, Brooklyn turned up the heat on the situation by trading cash considerations in exchange for guard Kobe Bufkin. Bufkin, 22, is a former first-round pick that didn't have much of a chance to succeed with the Atlanta Hawks sitting behind Trae Young, but his talent could give him the second-best odds to win the starting point guard job behind Demin.

Traore and Saraf are essentially competing for the third spot in the point guard rotation and with all of the players healthy, whoever is the fourth in the rotation may be spending most of his time in the G League. Traore and Saraf showed some good and bad aspects of their game in the summer league, but Traore should have the inside track given his speed and ball-handling ability that could be useful on an NBA floor right away.

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