Snapshot
- Team / role: Brooklyn Nets reserve forward and defensive-energy wing.
- Brooklyn baseline: 16 games, 19.3 MPG, 10.8 PTS, 2.5 REB, 0.8 AST, 1.3 STL and 0.8 BLK on .491/.395/.800 shooting. Official Nets end-of-season notes
- Contract: officially re-signed July 6 on a reported two-year, $9 million deal. NBA.com
2026-27 projection
| GP | MPG | FG% | FT% | 3PM | PTS | REB | AST | STL | BLK | TO |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 65 | 18 | .490 | .790 | 1.0 | 8.3 | 4.0 | 1.0 | 1.0 | 0.6 | 0.8 |
Fantasy translation
- Nine-category: top-135-to-190 upside; a better roto profile than raw scoring suggests.
- Points: deep-league only unless he starts.
- Dynasty: hold in 16-team formats; athletic stocks and improved shooting create a credible late-blooming role-player path.
Role, floor and ceiling
Minott competes with Terance Mann, Keon Ellis, Noah Clowney and Danny Wolf for backup forward minutes. Floor: 12 minutes with inconsistent games. Ceiling: 24 minutes and 1.8 combined stocks, enough for top-120 category value.
Risk monitor
His 16-game Brooklyn shooting burst is a small sample; career role and volume are still unproven. The front office's new deal is stronger evidence of intent than the March box-score spike, but not a starting promise.
Career record
Pre-NBA: One season at Memphis (2021-22): 33 games, 14.6 minutes, 6.6 points, 3.8 rebounds, 0.9 assists on .522 FG / .143 3P / .754 FT; AAC All-Freshman Team. The three-point line was a non-skill in college — 14.3 percent on a tiny sample — which makes the later shooting the most changed part of his profile. High school at Saint Andrew's School (Boca Raton, FL): 23.1 points and 8.3 rebounds as a senior, Palm Beach County Player of the Year, four-star recruit. Draft: 2022, second round, 45th overall, Charlotte Hornets; traded on draft night to Minnesota with a future second-rounder for Bryce McGowens.
| Season | Age | Team | GP | MPG | PTS | REB | AST | STL | BLK | 3PM | FG% | FT% | TO |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022-23 | 20 | MIN | 15 | 6.4 | 3.1 | 1.7 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.4 | 0.1 | .500 | 1.000 | 0.2 |
| 2023-24 | 21 | MIN | 32 | 2.8 | 1.6 | 0.5 | 0.3 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.1 | .472 | .857 | 0.1 |
| 2024-25 | 22 | MIN | 46 | 6.0 | 2.6 | 1.0 | 0.4 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.3 | .489 | .895 | 0.2 |
| 2025-26 | 23 | BOS | 33 | 15.9 | 5.8 | 3.6 | 1.0 | 0.7 | 0.4 | 1.0 | .507 | .769 | 0.6 |
| 2025-26 | 23 | BKN | 16 | 19.3 | 10.8 | 2.5 | 0.8 | 1.3 | 0.8 | 1.9 | .491 | .800 | 1.4 |
| Career | 142 | 9.1 | 4.1 | 1.7 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 0.3 | 0.6 | .495 | .833 | 0.4 |
The 2025-26 season splits across two teams: 33 games in Boston through the February 5, 2026 deadline, then 16 games in Brooklyn after the Celtics sent him over for cash considerations. The Brooklyn line is the one the dossier is built on, and it is 16 games long.
Fantasy history: 2022-23 through 2024-25: unrostered in all standard formats — never above 6.4 MPG, no season inside the top 400. 2025-26: no season-end 9-cat rank is verifiable for the split season, and a split-team rank would be misleading anyway; per-game over the 16 Brooklyn games the line (10.8 / 2.5 / 0.8 / 1.9 3PM / 1.3 / 0.8, .491 FG, .800 FT) is a top-100 shape in cats, but 16 games is not a season and should not be treated as one. Points-league shape is materially worse than the category shape: the rebounding is thin for a forward and the scoring volume is ordinary, so his value is concentrated in the stocks and percentages that only cats formats reward.
Durability: GP by season: 15, 32, 46, 49 (33 BOS + 16 BKN). None of the first three seasons were injury-limited — those were coach's decisions and G League assignments with Iowa, not health. In 2025-26 he lost rotation time in Boston in the weeks before the deadline and missed games with an ankle injury; the exact dates are not verified. Post-trade he was assigned to the Long Island Nets on February 17, 2026. There is no chronic injury pattern here, but there is also no season in which he has been asked to hold a role across 70-plus games.
Trajectory: Four seasons in, the useful fact is that Minott's counting stats have never been a skill signal — they have tracked minutes almost exactly, and until 2025-26 he never cleared 6.4 MPG. The one real change is the shot. He shot 14.3 percent from three in college and 32-40 percent on negligible attempts through 2024-25; in 2025-26 he hit .442 in Boston and .395 in Brooklyn on genuine volume, and 1.9 threes per game in the Brooklyn stretch is a different player than the one Minnesota buried. Whether that is skill acquisition or a 49-game hot run is the entire question, and the base rate for a career .143 college shooter suggests regression toward the high .330s rather than the .400s. What is more trustworthy is the defensive activity — 1.3 steals and 0.8 blocks per game in Brooklyn on 19.3 minutes is a per-minute stocks rate he has flashed at every stop, and stocks stabilize faster than three-point percentage. At 24 for most of 2026-27 he is at the age where late-second-round athletes either convert or do not; the two-year deal buys him the runway, but the 16-game sample the projection leans on is the thinnest evidence base in this tier of the rankings.
Career sources: ESPN career stats · Wikipedia — Josh Minott · Hoops Rumors — Celtics trade Josh Minott to Nets
Open questions
- Was the 39.5% Brooklyn three-point shooting real improvement?
- Does he back up Porter or Randle?
- Will Fernández favor Mann's reliability over Minott's development?