While everyone has been focusing on either Cam Thomas’ restricted free agency, Michael Porter Jr.’s adjustment to New York and/or the team’s five rookies, the Brooklyn Nets have agreed to sign an athletic 6’6”, 23-year-old wing, Ricky Council IV. Council was waived six days ago by Philadelphia 76ers.
Shams Charania of ESPN was first with the news...
Free agent guard/forward Ricky Council IV will sign a one-year contract with the Brooklyn Nets, his agent Adie von Gontard tells ESPN. The former 76ers
ADwing appeared in a team-high 73 games last season, averaging 7.3 points and 2.9 rebounds.
— Shams Charania (@ShamsCharania) August 1, 2025
Shams did not detail how the Nets will sign Council IV but a league source tells NetsDaily, Council will get a partially guaranteed, one-year deal.
With the signing, Brooklyn currently has 10 standard guaranteed deals, five standard non-guaranteed deals, three unsigned restricted free agents and two two-way deals on the books, giving them 20 players. NBA Teams can bring 21 players into training camp which is the Nets case will be the last week of September.
After going undrafted out of Arkansas in 2023, RC4 as he’s known, was signed to a two-way deal with Philly playing most of 2023-24 with the Delaware Blue Coats, averaging 23.4 points in 11 games on shooting splits of 47/35/80. His numbers with the 76ers were also promising, putting up 5.4 points a game in 32 games all off the bench, an average of nine minutes per game. He registered shooting splits of 48/38/75, leading the Sixers to convert his deal to a standard but non-guaranteed four-year, $7.4 million contract in April 2024.
Here’s some highlights from his rookie season:
With the 76ers the league leader in injuries this past season, Council IV’s numbers dropped off despite getting more minutes. Playing 1,000 minutes more in 2024-25 than he had his rookie season, he averaged 6.7 points in 73 games, 12 of them starts. However, his shooting dropped off dramatically, posting splits of 38/26/80. In two games on assignment with the Blue Coats in January and March, he put up 29 and 40-point efforts shooting 38.9% from deep.
The 76ers waived him to open a roster spot.
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