Nets sign 2025 NBA Draft picks Egor Demin, Ben Saraf, and Danny Wolf
The Nets announced on Thursday that they have signed 2025 NBA Draft picks in BYU guard Egor Demin, Israeli guard Ben Saraf, and Michigan forward Danny Wolf to multi-year contracts. This news comes after Brooklyn announced that they had re-signed guard Tyson Etienne to a Two-Way contract, bringing the team's number of Two-Way players to two, including forward Tosan Evbuomwan.
Demin, Saraf, and Wolf were taken with the eighth, 26th, and 27th overall picks in the Draft, respectively, and this was more or less a formality given that draftees are subject to rookie-scale contracts based on their draft position. For example, the most that Demin can sign for by virtue of being the eighth overall pick is $31,340, 682 over the course of his four-year rookie contract, according to Spotrac.
There was no reason to question whether any of the aforementioned rookies would sign their respective deals, especially since all three spoke during the team's press conference on Tuesday to introduce the rookie class. To that point, the Nets did not include French guard Nolan Traore, the 19th overall pick, or North Carolina guard Drake Powell, the 22nd overall pick, in the press release.
When it comes to Powell, assuming that he has already signed his rookie deal, it cannot be officially announced given that he was acquired during a multi-team trade with the Atlanta Hawks and Boston Celtics prior to the Draft and those transactions won't be official until after the free-agency moratorium ends on July 6.
For Traore, Brian Lewis of the New York Posted noted that Brooklyn's buyout of Traore's contract with Saint-Quentin has to be completed before he can officially sign his rookie deal with the Nets. Depending on the timing of the buyout of the rest of his contract, Traore could sign by as early as this weekend.
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