The Brooklyn Nets came into the 2026 NBA offseason with the goal of improving the team as much as possible following a 2025-26 NBA season in which they finished with a lowly 20-62 record. Brooklyn also came into the summer with the hope of seeing some of the youngest players on the team show improvement, but others around the league are not sold on most of the Nets’ 2025 NBA Draft class.
“The Nets had five first-round picks in 2025. With the exception of the outstanding Egor Demin, the Nets look as if they whiffed on this entire group,” John Hollinger wrote for The Athletic when discussing Brooklyn’s 2025 class. Forward Danny Wolf is one of the players that should be a factor in the rotation next season, but Hollinger doesn’t appear to be impressed by Wolf’s summer.
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“Wolf offered hints of rotational usefulness last season, but his clock-killing, ball-stopping dribbles to nowhere stood out more in a summer-league environment where his team was actually trying to win. All that pounding produced just seven assists in four games,” Hollinger added on Wolf. “I will unofficially award him the title of worst dribbles-to-points ratio of any non-guard in Vegas.”
Wolf, 22, played in four of the five games that the Nets played in the Las Vegas Summer League and while he had some up-and-down games, the former Michigan Wolverine had a solid stint this year. Wolf finished his time in Las Vegas with averages of 11.8 points, 5.8 rebounds, and 1.8 assists per game while shooting 48.6% from the field and just 11.1% from behind the three-point line.
Wolf is in the position where he should see significant playing time within Brooklyn’s rotation if he performs well during training camp later in the fall when the entire team is together. Assuming that Wolf will be spending some time as one of the centers on the team, his competition at that position will be Day’Ron Sharpe and Mo Wagner, but if most people feel like Hollinger does, Wolf may have something to prove next season.
This article originally appeared on Nets Wire: What to make of Nets’ Danny Wolf’s performance in summer league play?
