Josh Minott Returns to Nets on two-year, $9M deal

The Brooklyn Nets are bringing back one of their biggest surprises from last season.

According to ESPN’s Shams Charania, Josh Minott intends to sign a two-year, $9 million contract to remain in Brooklyn. The second year includes a team option.

The move comes after the Nets declined Minott’s previous $2.58 million team option, a procedural decision that allowed both sides to negotiate a new multi-year deal rather than simply picking up the final year of his rookie contract.

Minott arrived in Brooklyn at last season’s trade deadline as part of a deal that sent him from the Boston Celtics to the Nets. At the time, the move was viewed largely as a salary dump, with little expectation that he would become a meaningful contributor.

Instead, the 23-year-old quickly earned a role.

With Brooklyn leaning into its youth movement after the deadline, Minott took advantage of consistent playing time and became one of the team’s more interesting young forwards. Across 16 games with the Nets, he averaged 10.8 points while shooting 49.1% from the field and 39.5% from three-point range, providing athleticism, defensive versatility, and energy off the bench.

His emergence made him one of the more obvious candidates to return this offseason, and now he will do just that.

Before arriving in Brooklyn, Minott struggled to establish himself with both the Minnesota Timberwolves and the Celtics. Originally drafted by Charlotte in 2022, he spent most of his early career buried on the bench behind established rotation players, never able to crack a nightly role consistently. After signing with Boston in free agency before last season, he again found himself outside the regular rotation and limited to spot minutes.

It wasn’t until he landed in Brooklyn that Minott finally received extended opportunity, and he made the most of it.

Re-signing Minott also continues Brooklyn’s emphasis on keeping young, developmental pieces in the program as the franchise works through its rebuild. Rather than treating his strong finish as a short-term surge, the Nets are betting that his athleticism, defensive versatility, and improving perimeter shot can translate into a consistent role over a full season. At just 23 years old, he still has room to grow, making this a relatively low-risk investment with clear upside.

The new deal gives both sides flexibility. Minott gets a meaningful raise after proving himself in a larger role, while the Nets retain control with a team option in the second season.

For a player who arrived in Brooklyn as a low-risk deadline addition, Minott has now turned himself into a long-term piece of the rotation.

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