Nets end season with 136-101 loss to Raptors
The Brooklyn Nets finally reached the end of a season that felt longer than 82 games. Way longer. If you lived it, it felt like an eternity.
It ended Sunday in Toronto with a 136-101 loss at Scotiabank Arena, closing Brooklyn’s year at 20-62. The finale looked like the last few weeks have looked, the Nets short-handed again, Toronto still pushing toward the postseason and playing like it. The Raptors started Brandon Ingram, Scottie Barnes, Jakob Poeltl, RJ Barrett and Immanuel Quickley, while Brooklyn was down nine bodies in the season finale.
Now comes the offseason the Nets have been planning around for months. Brooklyn didn’t frame 2025-26 as a season built on wins. It was built around exposure, development and clearing space for what could come next.
Sean Marks, entering arguably his most pivotal offseason as Brooklyn’s general manager, didn’t mince words in a recent YES Network interview with Ryan Ruocco, and the numbers back it up “Knowing that our objective this year was to have the young guys play and play real NBA minutes,” Marks said. “That was the number one priority in between the G League and the development there and also here. We now lead the league in rookie minutes the whole year, so that’s exactly what we wanted to do.
” The Nets leaned into it from draft night forward. After falling to No. 8 in the 2025 NBA draft, Brooklyn made history, taking Egor Dëmin at that slot and then selecting Nolan Traoré, Drake Powell, Ben Saraf and Danny Wolf later in the first round to set an NBA record with five first-round selections.
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