NBA Trade Rumors: 5 Teams That Should Trade For Brandon Jennings

5. Brooklyn Nets

With Jarrett Jack going down with an ACL tear and Shane Larkin being so inexperienced, perhaps looking into a starting-caliber point guard like Brandon Jennings would be a decent idea for the Brooklyn Nets.

The Nets currently have no chance of winning games with their best players being Brook Lopez, Thaddeus Young and an injured rookie, Rondae Hollis-Jefferson, but they also have no incentive to lose since their next first round draft pick probably won’t be until 2019.

However, Young has been an underrated presence on the rare nights when the Nets play good basketball, averaging 15.5 points and 9.2 rebounds per game on 51.6 percent shooting. Although Jennings in a starting role has a higher ceiling under the assumption he can get back to form, there’s no guarantee that will happen and Young has easily been the better player so far this year.

That fact would be Detroit’s motivation for trying to trade for Young, a very good slasher who’s efficient from the floor and would bolster the bench. He’s not a perimeter shooter by any means, converting only 23.8 percent of his three-point attempts this year, but he’s a very smart player who’d help on the glass and make one of the league’s worst second units better.

Signed on through the 2018-19 season, Young would also be a preferable option to Jennings, who becomes a free agent this summer. Unfortunately, even if Jennings drastically increases his trade value over the next few weeks, his impending free agency might also prevent the Nets from trading for him, even if they decided to invest in him as their next franchise point guard.

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