The Brooklyn Nets are heading into the 2025 NBA offseason with many questions to answer, including who will be on the roster for the 2024-25 season. Within the month of June, Brooklyn will have to figure out who will be on the team through the upcoming draft and free-agency that should be begin after the conclusion of the 2025 NBA Finals between the Oklahoma City Thunder and the Indiana Pacers.

The Nets‘ draft strategy is one of the most interesting areas to dissect given that Brooklyn has five picks in the top-36, but are also rumored to be looking for ways to change things up prior to the draft beginning on June 25. With that being said, the Nets will have to figure out their free-agency strategy at the same time and that would include who the team would like to hold on to.

When discussing which players on the roster are “untouchable,” it’s important to note that none of the players on the current roster are believed to be un-tradeable or anything close to that. For the purposes of this article, this writing will exclude anyone that is a free-agent, restricted or otherwise, this summer. With those perimeters being set, here are the most untouchable players on Brooklyn’s roster:

F Cam Johnson

This entry comes with some irony given that Johnson was the subject of trade rumors throughout all of last season until the deadline passed with him remaining in a Nets uniform. There has been no indication that Brooklyn was trying everything possible to get Johnson off the roster and more to the point, Nets general manager Sean Marks spoke about how much Johnson means to the roster.

Johnson, 29, is under contract for the next two seasons so if the Nets were to trade him, the team acquiring him would know that they would have one of the better 3-and-D wings in the league on a descending contract. Johnson is coming off a 2024-25 season in which he averaged 18.8 points, 4.3 rebounds, and 3.4 assists per game while shooting 47.5% from the field and 39.0% from three-point range in 57 games played.

C Nic Claxton

Claxton is an interesting player to evaluate for this Nets team given that he has done a lot of work to get to the player that he is right now, but the last couple of seasons have felt like his game is stagnating. Claxton hasn’t been talked about as much as Johnson when it comes to trade rumors, but that doesn’t mean that teams wouldn’t be interested in a 26-year-old center who has three years and almost $70 million left on his deal.

Claxton has been mainly discussed as a potential target of the Los Angeles Lakers because of the team’s obvious need for a starting-level center after trading away Anthony Davis for Luka Doncic. Claxton is coming off a 2024-25 campaign in which he averaged 10.3 points, 7.4 rebounds, 2.2 assists, and 1.4 blocks per game while shooting 56.3% from the floor and 51.3% from the free-throw line.

F Noah Clowney

Clowney has shown some growth since being taken with the 21st overall pick in the 2023 NBA Draft after playing just one season at Alabama that teased his ability to be a floor-stretching power forward who can play some center. While Clowney has bulked up from 210 pounds to 230 pounds when he spoke to the media in October of 2024, he still showed that he has to improve his physicality if he is going to be the defender that many projected him to be.

Clowney improved in almost all of his stats from his rookie season to his sophomore year, but there are still some questions that he has to answer as he continues his career in Brooklyn, such as if he can hold up over the course of an entire season. Clowney is coming off a 2024-25 season in which he averaged 9.1 points and 3.9 rebounds per game while shooting 35.8% from the field and 33.3% from three-point land.

G/F Tyrese Martin

This entry will probably shock anyone who has read the article to this point given that Martin was in danger of not making the roster during training camp before the Nets chose him for one of the last remaining spots. Martin went from being a training camp invite to a Two-Way player before finishing the season by having his Two-Way contract converted to a standard NBA deal.

One could argue that Martin is destined to be an end of the roster kind of player in the NBA given that he didn’t see any run in the NBA last season and has only played in 76 NBA games at 26 years old. However, for a Brooklyn team that needed anyone to contribute during the 2024-25 campaign, Martin stepped up to average 8.7 points, 3.7 rebounds, and 2.0 assists per contest on 40.6/35.1/79.3 shooting splits.

Not to mention that Martin has a team option for next of just $2.19 million (1.4% of the cap) so if the Nets are looking to spend big this offseason, they will need players like Martin on the roster to make the money work.

F Tosan Evbuomwan

Evbuomwan came to the Nets in January as a Two-Way player, but he made an impact right away by scoring at least 10 points in five of his first eight games. Evbuomwan signed with the team at a time when Brooklyn was looking for healthy players as much as they were looking for productive ones and Evbuomwan fit both of those categories at the right time.

Part of the reason that Evbuomwan has a better chance than most of being on the roster next season is the fact that he signed a Two-Way deal for more than just last season, implying that the Nets want to keep Evbuomwan around for the long-term. It makes sense for Brooklyn to feel that way given that Evbuomwan is coming off a 2024-25 campaign with averages of 9.5 points, 4.3 rebounds, and 2.0 assists per game while shooting 42.7% from the floor and 31.2% from deep.

This article originally appeared on Nets Wire: Which Nets are the most “untouchable” heading into the 2025 NBA Draft?