The Nets and free agent center Day’Ron Sharpe are in agreement on a two-year contract worth $12MM, according to Michael Scotto of HoopsHype (Twitter link). The second year of the deal will be a team option.
Sharpe has played a relatively modest rotation role and has battled some health issues since being selected 29th overall in the 2021 draft. In total, he has appeared in 191 games (14 starts) for the Nets across his four professional seasons.
The 23-year-old enjoyed a career year in 2024/25, averaging 7.9 points and 6.6 rebounds in 18.1 minutes per night. Sharpe had one of the NBA’s best offensive rebounding rates and had very strong on/off-court numbers. A Nets team that finished the season with a 26-56 record and a -7.3 net rating outscored its opponents by 2.1 points per 100 possessions when Sharpe was playing, which was – by far – the best mark of any rotation player who finished the season on Brooklyn’s roster.
Based on Sharpe’s promising numbers and his age, I had speculated that an eight-figure annual salary might be within reach for the big man, so the Nets did well to bring him back for a total of $12MM over two years. Another Nets free agent, Ziaire Williams, agreed to identical terms earlier today.
Although Sharpe had been eligible for restricted free agency, the Nets opted not to give him a qualifying offer over the weekend, so he’ll enter the new league year as an unrestricted FA. That was mostly a procedural move in order to maximize Brooklyn’s cap flexibility, since the team still had interest in retaining him, as this new agreement confirms.
Accounting for Williams’ and Sharpe’s tentative deals and Cam Thomas‘ cap hold, the Nets project to have roughly $37MM in cap room available, tweets ESPN’s Bobby Marks. That number could increase if the team uses its $8.8MM room exception to re-sign either Williams or Sharpe.
Good moves to get them both back for less than the QO. I expect them to make a play on Aldama, assuming I haven’t missed something in earlier posts here.