The Brooklyn Nets enter the 2024/2025 NBA season surrounded by uncertainty after a tough year and an offseason marked by more losses than additions. With a roster in rebuild mode and key players like Ben Simmons under pressure,

Brooklyn Nets center Nic Claxton finds himself in a new position entering his sixth NBA season. After years as the team’s promising youngster in the shadows of Kevin Durant and Kyrie Irving, the 25-year-old is suddenly Brooklyn’s longest-tenured player.

Per C.J. Holmes of the New York Daily News, Nic Claxton is expected to debut under new head coach Jordi Fernandez in Brooklyn's season-opener against Trae Young and the Atlanta Hawks. The 25-year-old big man had been held out of every preseason contest nursing a hamstring injury that the franchise insisted was not serious.

Nic Claxton finds himself suddenly as the longest-tenured player on the Nets, noting that such an ascension in seniority “happens fast” in the NBA. The 25-year-old center expects to play in Wednesday’s season opener in Atlanta after missing the team’s four preseason games due to a hamstring issue — declaring himself “ready to go” to open his sixth NBA campaign.