Trendon Watford will make his debut this season with Brooklyn.
The Nets will be without starting center Nick Claxton for at least a week, but will have their forward back from a hamstring injury.
Watford, 24, was removed from the injury report for Sunday's game against the Knicks.
The versatile forward was due to make his debut earlier this month, but suffered a hamstring injury.
Watford averaged 6.9 points and 3.1 rebounds in 13.6 minutes for the Nets last season.
After getting his chance late in Brooklyn's youth program, he improved to 12.9 points and 5.7 boards in 25.4 minutes over his final 11 games.
Giare Williams was added to the injury report with right hip tightness.
Claxton (lower back strain), Bojan Bogdanovic (recovering from a left leg injury) and Dayron Sharpe (left hamstring strain) were all out Sunday.
Jalen Martin and Darik Whitehead are scheduled to move to the G League.
Claxton's lower back tightness not only hurts the Nets' centers, it also handicap their point guards.
With Claxton and Sharpe the only two true centers, Ben Simmons will be deprived of his natural lead guard position.
Under coach Jordi Fernandez, the Nets are not only willing to tackle physical challenges. They are also willing to challenge coaches.
Through 13 games, the Nets have already made 16 called challenges. And they have a solid record of 10 wins and 6 losses.
The Nets have won four of their past five attempts, including a 124-122 loss to the Garden late Friday, helping them erase a 21-point deficit.
“Well, I think we have the best challenge coach in the league, so I trust him,” Fernandez said of assistant Connor Griffin. “And so far, Conner has done a great job. So I have to trust the guy who does that job. And obviously, as a head coach who's been through it, I trust him. You have to ask, you have to feel it. But they were huge. They are part of the rules.
“And you can't control [it] everytime. You can feel it. When you're outnumbered, you may want to take a little more risk. But we don't intend to take those challenges home with us. That's what we know. We were penalized at the end because we didn't have a timeout. But if you don't win these challenges, you won't have a chance to win. So Connor did a great job. ”
Griffin worked with Fernandez in Denver, where he was an assistant video coordinator and Fernandez was an assistant coach during the 2021-22 season.
When Fernandez became Team Canada's head coach, he added Griffin as an assistant and brought him to Brooklyn this offseason to lure him away from the Nuggets, where he was video coordinator and head player development coach.
