Will the next time we see Nolan Traore, Ben Saraf and Danny Wolf in a Nets uniform be Friday night at Nassau Coliseum … donning the Long Island Nets red, white and blue?
Brooklyn assigned the three first
round picks to its G League affiliate Tuesday. Although the Nets will play vs. the Indiana Pacers in Indianapolis Thursday and the Detroit Pistons in Detroit Friday, it seems more likely the three will be in Uniondale instead preparing to battle the Capital City Go-Go, the G League affiliate of the Washington Wizards in Long Island’s opener. That means only Egor Demin, the Nets lottery pick, is likely to be only one of the Nets five first rounders with the team. Drake Powell has been slowed by an ankle injury and remains questionable.
Of the three, Saraf has played the most minutes in the NBA, with 16.7 minutes per game in five games. Traore has played 11.0 minutes in three games and Wolf had his league debut last night, playing a little more than three minutes. All can be expected to play a lot more minutes with Long Island which of course is the point of the assignment.
They’ll join Grant Nelson who was in camp on an Exhibit 10 for the Nets as well as two-ways Tyson Etienne and E.J. Liddell and a host of NBA veterans including point guard Yuri Collins, the G League’s leading playmaker, who played for the Golden State Warriors last season, shooting guards Nate Williams and Jay Scrubb who have 71 games of NBA experience as well as David Muoka, the near 7-footer from Hong Kong who’s a two-year G League veteran and returning Long Island Nets, point guard Terry Roberts and forward Tre Scott.
As Hoops Rumors reported Tuesday, the Nets are the only NBA team not to fill all three of its two-way roster slots. There’s plenty of time to add a player. Teams can add a two-way as late as March 4.
The opener will be broadcast on the G League website starting at 7:00 p.m. ET. Long Island and Capital City will also play Sunday afternoon, then be off until a week from Friday.
