With just seven players committed to contracts for next season, the Nets have plenty of work to do to round out the roster for their first year in Brooklyn.
One player who is unlikely to find his way onto the roster, however, is Bojan Bogdanovic, last year’s second-round pick. Though the Nets are high on his talent, contractual issues likely will keep him playing for Fenerbahce, one of Turkey’s top clubs, for at least another season.
“It would be difficult,” Bogdanovic’s agent, Marc Cornstein, told The Post yesterday. “I wouldn’t say 100 percent, but in all likelihood he’ll be playing in Turkey next season.”
The problem for the Nets is their lack of financial flexibility — after a busy first few days of free agency, including coming to agreements to re-sign Deron Williams and Gerald Wallace and trading for All-Star Hawks guard Joe Johnson — when the NBA’s free agent signing moratorium ends on Wednesday.
Because the Nets will be over the salary cap and already have committed their $3 million “mini” mid-level exception to Bosnian power forward Mirza Teletovic, all they could offer Bogdanovic, 23, is the rookie minimum salary for next season.
Because the 6-foot-7 small forward is signed to a lucrative contract with Fenerbache and is lacking an NBA-out in his contract, he would have to come to a buyout agreement with the club. Under the rules of the collective bargaining agreement, the Nets could contribute about only $550,000 toward any buyout.
Add it all up, and Bogdanovic, who averaged 13.0 points while shooting 50 percent from the field and 41.1 percent from 3-point range for Fenerbahce this past season, likely will have to wait until next summer, when he has an out in his contract, to make his Brooklyn debut.
“It just delays the inevitable that he’ll come over and become part of the core they are putting together in Brooklyn,” Cornstein said.