The Brooklyn Nets are signing ahead Nick Pringle to an Exhibit 10 contract, NetsDaily reported Tuesday. The settlement provides one other bodily imposing frontcourt possibility as Brooklyn continues to prioritize positional measurement and flexibility throughout its NBA and Lengthy Island rosters.
Pringle, 24, additionally performed for the Boston Celtics through the 2026 NBA Summer season League, showing in three video games. He averaged 3.3 factors, 3.3 rebounds, 1.7 assists, 0.7 steals and 1.0 block in 11.3 minutes per recreation, capturing 75% from the sector and 100% from the free-throw line.
His Summer season League function was restricted, however Pringle contributed in a number of areas past scoring. He recorded 1.0 offensive rebound and a couple of.3 defensive rebounds per recreation, whereas his 1.0 block per recreation highlighted the defensive presence that has been a constant a part of his school profile.
An Exhibit 10 contract doesn’t essentially assure Pringle a training-camp invitation. NetsDaily famous that Brooklyn has ceaselessly used Exhibit 10 agreements to fill out the Lengthy Island Nets roster, making a G League task a possible end result relying on the group’s closing roster selections.
Pringle performed his closing school season at Arkansas in 2025-26 after stops at Wofford, Dodge Metropolis Group Faculty, Alabama and South Carolina. He appeared in 35 video games for Arkansas, together with 33 begins, averaging 4.6 factors and three.9 rebounds in 18.9 minutes per recreation.
The ahead shot 72.9% from the sector for Arkansas, though his offensive function was restricted virtually totally to two-point makes an attempt. Pringle didn’t try a three-pointer through the 2025-26 season and has tried just one three-pointer throughout his 152-game school profession.
His strongest statistical season got here at South Carolina in 2024-25, when he averaged 9.5 factors and 6.3 rebounds in 24.6 minutes whereas beginning all 32 video games. He shot 57.2% from the sector and 65.5% from the free-throw line that season.
Pringle completed his school profession with averages of 5.6 factors and 4.3 rebounds in 16.2 minutes over 152 video games, together with 81 begins. He shot 64.9% from the sector, reflecting a profile constructed primarily round inside scoring and rebounding relatively than perimeter capturing.
The signing provides one other big-bodied choice to a Nets frontcourt that features Noah Clowney, Danny Wolf, Jalen Wilson and E.J. Liddell. Clowney began 60 of 66 video games in 2025-26 and averaged 12.3 factors and 4.1 rebounds whereas capturing 32.9% from three-point vary.
Brooklyn completed 20-62 final season, thirteenth within the Jap Convention, earlier than deciding on Mikel Brown Jr. sixth total and Joshua Jefferson twenty eighth within the 2026 NBA Draft. The Nets additionally acquired Julius Randle, signed Keon Ellis to a two-year, $18 million contract and re-signed Day’Ron Sharpe and Josh Minott.
