With teams across the league looking for potential wing and point guard help, the Brooklyn Nets have several trade candidates, depending on the direction the team goes ahead of February’s trade deadline.

Spencer Dinwiddie, who became the third Net in franchise NBA history with 1,500 or more assists and 500 or more threes, joining Jason Kidd and Vince Carter, is among the names to keep an eye on in the coming months.

“Dinwiddie can help a team and make big shots,” an NBA executive told HoopsHype.

An upcoming unrestricted free agent, Dinwiddie has continuously referenced Mikal Bridges, Cam Johnson, Nic Claxton, and Ben Simmons as core members of Brooklyn’s future while complimenting Cam Thomas and Lonnie Walker when talking about the team’s future.

“That all comes down to Joe Tsai and Sean Marks at the end of the day,” Dinwiddie told The HoopsHype Podcast just before the regular season when asked about his future. “I’ll be a free agent at the end of the year. I earned my pension already, so it is what it is. We’ll see what happens after that. If the team wins and we’ve got guys rolling, at the bare minimum, I’ve left the team in good hands, and if it’s time for me to ride off into the sunset, that’s what it is, and I’ll be a Brooklyn Nets fan.”

NBA executives across the league are also monitoring Brooklyn’s wings, including Dorian Finney-Smith and Royce O’Neale.

Finney-Smith has previously drawn interest from several playoff-caliber teams, including the Dallas Mavericks, Miami Heat, Philadelphia 76ers, and Memphis Grizzlies (before several injuries changed their trajectory this season), among other teams, league sources told HoopsHype.

Given that Finney-Smith is signed through the 2024-25 season before a $15.38 million player option decision for the 2025-26 season, rival executives expect the Nets to continue to have a high asking price worth the equivalent of two first-round picks if they trade him with the hope that the asking price will drop closer to the trade deadline.

A few executives who spoke with HoopsHype believe Brooklyn would want a protected first-round pick for O’Neale, an upcoming unrestricted free agent.

Rival executives are also monitoring Nets center Nicolas Claxton and have asked one consistent question regarding the 24-year-old center who will become an unrestricted free agent this summer: Will Brooklyn pay up to keep him?

Given recent average annual salaries for centers Jarrett Allen ($20 million), Jusuf Nurkic ($17.5 million), Deandre Ayton ($33.2 million), Jakob Poeltl ($19.5 million), and Brook Lopez ($24 million) in free agency the past few offseasons, Claxton is projected to be over earn over $20 million per year in free agency.

Currently, Claxton is viewed as a core member of the Nets moving forward, barring a trade offer that blows the team away.

Looking further ahead, Ben Simmons will be in the final year of his contract during the 2024-25 season at $40.34 million, making him a potential trade chip in the summer of 2024 due to his expiring contract – whether he can stay healthy or not this season.