Snapshot
- Team / role: Brooklyn Nets projected starting off guard and secondary initiator.
- 2025-26 baseline: 52 games, 25.2 MPG, 10.3 PTS, 3.2 REB, 3.3 AST, 0.8 STL and 2.4 threes on .399/.831 shooting. Basketball-Reference
- Summer signal: matched Brown with 20 points in the July 10 win and scored 21 in his final July 16 appearance, showing he was back in live competition. NBA Summer League report, 2026-07-10 · NBA team fantasy update, accessed 2026-07-18
2026-27 projection
| GP | MPG | FG% | FT% | 3PM | PTS | REB | AST | STL | BLK | TO |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 67 | 29 | .420 | .830 | 2.3 | 13.1 | 3.8 | 4.2 | 1.0 | 0.4 | 2.0 |
Fantasy translation
- Nine-category: top-105-to-150 upside, strongest in builds needing threes and assists without punting FT%.
- Points: top-115-to-155; modest rebounding/stocks keep him below the best Year 2 breakouts.
- Dynasty: top-85-to-130. His 6-foot-8 creation profile is more valuable long-term than his current box score.
Role, floor and ceiling
Brown's arrival shifts Dëmin toward a jumbo secondary-handler role, which can lower turnovers and raise catch-and-shoot quality while shaving assists. Floor: 24 minutes and a repeat of his rookie line. Ceiling: 31 minutes, 15/5/5 with 2.5 threes and top-90 category value.
Risk monitor
Brooklyn ended his rookie season because of increased left-foot plantar fasciitis. Official medical update, 2026-03 The Summer League return is encouraging but does not eliminate recurrence risk.
Career record
Pre-NBA: Real Madrid system, then BYU (one season). He appeared in one ACB game for Real Madrid's senior side in 2022-23 (0.9 minutes) and played mostly for Real Madrid B in 2023-24, averaging roughly 13.0 points and 5.1 rebounds over 21 games; he won the Euroleague Next Generation Tournament in 2023 and 2024. At BYU in 2024-25 he started all 33 games and averaged 10.6 points, 5.5 assists, 3.9 rebounds and 1.2 steals in 27.5 minutes on .412/.273/.695 shooting, making the Big 12 All-Freshman Team. The shooting split is the key pre-NBA datum: he was a 27.3% college three-point shooter who has since shot 38.5% in the NBA on far higher volume. Draft: 2025, first round, 8th overall, Brooklyn Nets.
| Season | Age | Team | GP | MPG | PTS | REB | AST | STL | BLK | 3PM | FG% | FT% | TO |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-26 | 20 | BKN | 52 | 25.2 | 10.3 | 3.2 | 3.3 | 0.8 | 0.3 | 2.4 | .399 | .831 | 1.7 |
| Career | 52 | 25.2 | 10.3 | 3.2 | 3.3 | 0.8 | 0.3 | 2.4 | .399 | .831 | 1.7 |
Fantasy history: 2025-26 season-end nine-category rank is not verifiable from public season-end raters, and he would have been ineligible for most full-season leaderboards anyway at 52 games. On a per-game basis the shape is legible without a rank: elite three-point volume for a rookie (2.4 makes), strong FT% on low attempts, positive assists, and a FG% that is a net negative at .399. Points-league value trails category value because the profile leans on threes and percentages rather than counting stats, and his rebounding and blocks are thin for a 6-foot-8 player.
Durability: 2025-26: 52 GP (45 starts) of 82. The plantar fasciitis in his left foot was first diagnosed after the 2025 Las Vegas Summer League and recurred through the season; he last played February 27, 2026, and Brooklyn ruled him out for the remainder of the season on March 9, 2026, then had him undergo a non-surgical procedure. The absence was a single continuous shutdown rather than scattered games, which is the more concerning pattern for a chronic soft-tissue condition. He was a full participant in July 2026 Summer League.
Trajectory: The rookie year's headline is a shot-diet transformation that the college record did not predict — 27.3% on 2.6 threes a game at BYU became 38.5% on roughly 6 attempts a game in the NBA, including a rookie-record 34 straight games with a made three. That is either a genuine mechanical fix or the largest single-season shooting outlier in his file, and 52 games is not enough sample to settle it; treat the 2026-27 three-point projection as the widest error bar in his profile. The assist rate moved the other way: 5.5 per game at BYU on primary-handler usage fell to 3.3 in a role where he was mostly playing off Brooklyn's other creators, so his playmaking value is currently role-suppressed rather than skill-limited. At 21 he is on the steepest part of the curve and any minutes increase should compound, but the foot is the governing variable — plantar fasciitis that has already recurred once across a calendar year tends to recur again, and his 2026-27 value is best modeled as a strong per-game line discounted by a real chance of another 15-to-25-game absence.
Career sources: ESPN career stats · Wikipedia — Egor Dëmin · NBA.com — Dëmin out for remainder of season · NetsDaily — plantar fascia flare-up
Open questions
- Is Dëmin or Brown the primary initiator when both start?
- Does his 38.5% rookie three-point shooting survive higher defensive attention?
- How will Brooklyn manage the plantar fascia over an 82-game schedule?