Brooklyn Nets 2024-25 roster, coach, owner, injury report, stats, and more

Brooklyn Nets 2024-25 roster, coach, owner, injury report, stats, and more

Helix Odhiambo, Adrianna Simwa
updated at February 16, 2024 at 12:53 PM

The Brooklyn Nets is an American professional basketball team based in New York City. The team competes in the National Basketball Association (NBA) and has a long history since 1967. Here is everything you need to know about the Brooklyn Nets roster for the 2024/25 season.

Brooklyn Nets roster
The Brooklyn Nets players. Photo: @brooklynnets (modified by author)
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The Nets have produced many top talents in basketball, like Julius Erving, Jason Kidd and Buck Williams. They also have millions of fans worldwide, including top celebrities like Bill Clinton, Beyonce, and her husband Jay-Z, who previously owned shares of the Brooklyn team.

Profile summary

Full name

The Brooklyn Nets

Nickname

The Nets

Conference

Eastern

Division

Atlantic

Founded

1967

Arena

Barclays Center

Owner

Joseph Tsai

Coach

Jacque T. Vaughn

CEO

Sam Zussman

Brooklyn Nets roster, coach, owner, injury report, stats, and more

The NBA team was founded in 1967 as the New Jersey Americans playing in the American Basketball Association (ABA) league. In 1968, they moved to Long Island and changed their name to the New York Nets.

The ABA then merged with the National Basketball Association (NBA) in 1976, allowing the Nets, alongside other teams, to join the NBA. In 1977, they changed their name to the New Jersey Nets before rebranding to the Brooklyn Nets in 2012 to date.

Brooklyn Nets have some of the best players in their 2024-25 roster. Below is all the information you need to know about the team.

Who is on the Brooklyn Nets roster right now?

Here is a list of the players playing in the 2024-25 season.

Name

Number

Position

Height

Weight

Darius Bazley

Forward-center

7

6 ft 9 in (2.06 m)

216 lb (98 kg)

Mikal Bridges

Shooting guard

1

6 ft 6 in (1.98 m)

209 lb (95 kg)

Armoni Brooks

Point guard

13

6 ft 3 in (1.91 m)

195 lb (88 kg)

Nic Claxton

Center

33

6 ft 11 in (2.11 m)

215 lb (98 kg)

Noah Clowney

Power forward

21

6 ft 10 in (2.08 m)

210 lb (95 kg)

Spencer Dinwiddie

Point guard

26

6 ft 5 in (1.96 m)

215 lb (98 kg)

Dorian Finney-Smith

Small forward

28

6 ft 7 in (2.01 m)

220 lb (100 kg)

Cameron Johnson

Small forward

2

6 ft 8 in (2.03 m)

210 lb (95 kg)

Royce O'Neale

Shooting guard

00

6 ft 6 in (1.98 m)

226 lb (103 kg)

Day'Ron Sharpe

Center

20

6 ft 11 in (2.11 m)

265 lb (120 kg)

Ben Simmons

Point guard

10

6 ft 11 in (2.11 m)

240 lb (109 kg)

Dennis Smith Jr.

Point guard

4

6 ft 2 in (1.88 m)

205 lb (93 kg)

Cam Thomas

Shooting guard

24

6 ft 3 in (1.91 m)

210 lb (95 kg)

Lonnie Walker IV

Shooting guard

8

6 ft 4 in (1.93 m)

204 lb (93 kg)

Trendon Watford

Power forward

9

6 ft 8 in (2.03 m)

237 lb (108 kg)

Dariq Whitehead

Small forward

0

6 ft 7 in (2.01 m)

220 lb (100 kg)

Jalen Wilson

Small forward

22

6 ft 8 in (2.03 m)

225 lb (102 kg)

What is Brooklyn Nets' starting lineup?

Below is the 2024-25 starting lineup for the Brooklyn Nets.

Name

Position

Number

Spencer Dinwiddie

Point guard

26

Mikal Bridges

Shooting guard

1

Cameron Johnson

Small forward

2

Dorian Finney-Smith

Small forward

28

Nic Claxton

Center

33

Who is the Brooklyn Nets' owner?

Asian Canadian billionaire Joseph Tsai and his wife, Clara Tsai, are the owners of the NBA franchise. Joshua bought the team from Mikhail Prokhorov in September 2019. He first purchased a 49% stake at roughly $2.3 billion in 2017 before adding $1 billion in 2019 to complete the takeover.

Brooklyn Nets' owner
Joseph Tsai, vice chairman and co-founder of Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. Photo: Anthony Kwan
Source: Instagram

Tsai was born in Taipei, Taiwan, in January 1964. He has shown a keen interest in American Sports. Besides owning the Brooklyn, he is the majority owner of the WNBA's New York Liberty and the NLL's San Diego Seals.

Brooklyn Nets' stadium

Where is the Brooklyn Nets' Arena located? The NBA team plays its home games at the Barclays Center. The centre is situated at the crossroads of Atlantic and Flatbush Avenues.

The Barclays Center is a state-of-the-art facility that opened in 2012. Besides basketball, it hosts several events like premier concerts and boxing championships.

The team's logo has undergone various transformations since its inception in 1967. The current one, designed by Jay Z, is the eighth to represent the franchise. The inaugural logo had elements of the American flag, with stars and stripes.

The new logo has black and white colour schemes. There is also an enclosed basketball with a capital "B", similar to the design at the centre court circle at Barclays Center.

Who is Brooklyn Nets' coach?

The team's current coach is Jacque Vaughn. From 1997 to 2009, Vaughn had stints in the NBA with the Nets, Utah Jazz, Atlanta Hawks, Orlando Magic, and San Antonio Spurs. His assistants include:

  • Ronnie Burrell
  • Adam Caporn
  • Ryan Forehan-Kelly
  • Trevor Hendry
  • Jay Hernandez
  • Kevin Ollie
  • Corey Vinson
  • Will Weaver

Brooklyn Nets' stats

Here is a breakdown of their 2024-25 regular season stats.

Category

Score

Games played

82

Blocks per Game

6.2

Points per game

113.4

Rebounds per game

40.5

Assists per game

25.5

Steals per game

7.1

Average field goals made

41.5

Average 3-point field goals made

12.8

3-point field goal percentage

37.8

Average free throws attempted

17.7

2-point field goals made per game

51.3

2-point field goal percentage

55.9

Scoring efficiency

1.332

Shooting efficiency

0.56

Brooklyn Nets' injury report

The NBA franchise has three players on their injury list. They are Dariq Whitehead, Dennis Smith Jr. and Dorian Finney-Smith. Dariq suffered a foot injury on Thursday, June 22, 2023. Dennis suffered a toe injury, while Dorian suffered a finger injury on Tuesday, July 11, 2023.

Brooklyn Nets standings

The NBA standings refer to the official rankings of all the teams in the National Basketball Association (NBA) based on their performance in the current season. The table below shows the Brooklyn Nets' standings for the 2024-25 regular season.

Category

Score

Wins

45

Losses

37

Record last 10 games

6-4

Games back

13

Home record

23-18

Away record

22-19

Division record

7-9

Conference record

30-22

Points per game

113.4

Opponent points per game

112.5

Average point differential

+0.9

Current streak

L1

Brooklyn Nets trade rumors

Some of the latest Brooklyn Nets news include:

  • The Nets and Rockets have officially announced the trade that will send Brooklyn guard Patty Mills to Houston. But Mills won’t be with the Rockets for long — or at all.
  • The Brooklyn Nets are reportedly interested in trading for Sacramento Kings guard Buddy Hield.
  • The Brooklyn Nets are reportedly interested in trading for Portland Trail Blazers guard CJ McCollum.

Social media

The team has a sizable social media following across several platforms. It uses these accounts to keep followers up to date on the newest developments.

Social media page

Handle

Followers

Instagram

@brooklynnets

8.4 million

X (formerly Twitter)

@BrooklynNets

2 million

YouTube

Brooklyn Nets

114k

Facebook

Brooklyn Nets

3.1 million

TikTok

@brooklynnets

1.4 million

Did the Brooklyn Nets trade Kevin Durant?

The Nets traded Kevin Durant to the Phoenix Suns as part of a four-team transaction.

Who is the best player on the Brooklyn Nets?

Mikal Bridges is one of the best players in the team. He was ranked position 37 on The Ringer’s Top 125 Players in the NBA.

Does Jay-Z own the Nets?

The American rapper owned a small minority stake in the Nets from 2003 until 2013. To avoid any potential conflicts of interest, he sold his ownership after enrolling as a sports agent with his new agency, Roc Nation Sports.

His shares were subsequently sold to Will Pan, a singer, rapper, actor, and entrepreneur, making Pan the first American of Taiwanese heritage to own a professional sports team in the United States.

The Brooklyn Nets roster consists of basketball players who have established themselves among the best in the NBA. Their quest for the first championship remains the ultimate goal ahead of next season.

Brooklyn Nets
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Helix Odhiambo
Helix Odhiambo is an award-winning Kenyan journalist and content creator with over 6 years of experience. In 2016, he won the Goal Blaze Correspondent Award for young writers.
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Adrianna Simwa
Adrianna Simwa is a content writer at Sports Brief, where she has worked since mid-2022. She has written for many periodicals on a variety of subjects, including news, celebrities, and lifestyle, for more than three years.