The Long Island Nets are starting to piece together their 2026-27 roster, and Thursday brought another notable addition.
Long Island acquired guard Dwight Murray Jr. and a 2026 first-round pick in the G League Draft from the College Park Skyhawks in exchange for a 2026 first-rounder, via Cleveland, and a 2027 second-round pick. Murray, a 6-foot, 181-pound guard, has logged 90 career G League games, including 51 starts, over two seasons with College Park.
In that span, the 26-year-old has averaged 8.9 points, 3.6 rebounds and 5.0 assists in 23.5 minutes per game. The Georgia native played his college ball at Rider in Lawrence Township, N.J.
Murray also turned in a strong showing in the 2025 Tip-Off Tournament, where he posted 96 assists, tied for the ninth-most in the G League. That production helped earn him a spot on the Brooklyn Nets’ Summer League team, and he appeared in two games there, averaging 5.0 points, 1.5 rebounds and 1.5 assists while shooting 33.3% from the field and 40% from 3-point range in 15.7 minutes per game.
There’s also a built-in layer of familiarity here. Long Island’s first-year head coach, Shawn Swords, was an assistant on Brooklyn’s Summer League staff, so he already knows Murray from that setting.
This wasn’t Long Island’s only move this week, either. On Tuesday, the team landed a first-round pick in the 2027 NBA G League Draft from the Santa Cruz Warriors and the returning player rights to guard Joey Calcaterra from the Memphis Hustle in a three-team deal. In that trade, Long Island sent the returning player rights to guard Yuri Collins to Memphis.
Calcaterra, 27, brings a much lighter statistical track record than Murray. In 28 career G League games, he has averaged 3.0 points, 1.2 rebounds and 0.8 assists in 10.8 minutes per game, while shooting 37.5% from the field and 32.1% from beyond the arc.
The rest of the picture is coming into focus, too. Along with Murray and Calcaterra, Brooklyn has filled two of its three two-way slots with forwards Chaney Johnson and second-round rookie Tyler Bilodeau.
The organization also signed 6-foot-9 Nick Pringle out of Arkansas to an Exhibit 10 contract, which puts him in position to spend time with Long Island. In July, Brooklyn selected 6-foot-4 guard Tidjiane Dioumassi in the G League’s International Draft.
Grant Nelson remains part of the conversation as well. The 24-year-old has agreed to a training camp deal, according to Chinese media, though NetsDaily could not confirm that report. Nelson spent time with both Brooklyn and Long Island last season, but his year ended because of patellar tendinitis.
And there’s still more depth in the pipeline. Some members of the Flatbush 5 are expected to spend time at Nassau Coliseum this year, along with No. 28 overall pick Joshua Jefferson.
Three other players from the Nets’ Summer League roster have also reportedly agreed to Exhibit 10 deals: Dion Brown, a 6-foot-4 combo guard from St. Louis, and two 6-foot-9 bigs, Ben Humrichaus, a wing who played for Illinois last season, and Dain Dainja, a power forward/center who played for the Sioux Falls Skyforce, the Heat’s G League affiliate.
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