The last time the Nets rebuilt, they did it by sifting through the fallen prospects and reclamation projects.
It looks like they’re following the same blueprint this time around.
Brooklyn is undergoing a youth movement in what promises to be a rebuilding year or two with no real pressure.
And the latest youth is Amari Bailey, who is joining on an Exhibit 10 deal in a move first reported by Hoopshype and confirmed by The Post.
The 20-year-old guard is the third youngest player on the Nets roster behind Dariq Whitehead and Noah Clowney.
All three were among the 10 youngest players in the NBA last season, and could play varying roles on a green Nets roster.
While Clowney and Whitehead are both 2023 first-round picks and will be part of Brooklyn’s rebuild, Bailey will be coming to next month’s training camp looking to earn his spot.
A former second-round pick, he averaged 2.3 points in 6.5 minutes over just 10 appearances as a rookie last season in Charlotte.
The 6-foot-3 guard is the prototype of a second chance flier that the Nets have gambled on in the past, to varying degrees of success.
Picking up Spencer Dinwiddie and Joe Harris off the scrap heap were home runs, as was taking on devalued D’Angelo Russell and turning him into an All-Star.
Signing former No. 1 overall pick Anthony Bennett was a swing and a miss.
Win some, lose some.
Now the Nets have added 23-year-old reclamation projects Killian Hayes and Ziaire Williams, the former an Exhibit 10 and the latter a Memphis Grizzlies wing who has reportedly looked good in summer workouts.
Bailey is the latest dart throw, a derailed high school phenom that Brooklyn will hope to get back on track.
The guard averaged 29.2 points, 9.1 rebounds, and 6.5 assists as a junior at Sierra Canyon, and was named California Mr. Basketball.
Bailey was viewed as the No. 1 overall player by every recruiting service entering the summer of his senior season, before an injury that cost him the AAU circuit and early parts of the season.
ESPN ranked him No. 5 in his 2022 high school class, and he headed to UCLA where he averaged 11.2 points and 3.8 boards in his lone collegiate season.
Further injuries somewhat slowed his growth as he missed seven games from Dec. 30 to Jan. 26, 2023 with a foot injury.
After he returned, and top defender Jaylen Clark suffered a season-ending injury in the regular-season finale, Bailey both shouldered guarding the top perimeter threat and boosted his own scoring to 17.3 points on 56.1 percent shooting.
But he still fell to the second round of the draft.
Charlotte took Bailey 41st overall, inking him to a two-way deal.
He was little-used by the Hornets, instead spending most of the season with the affiliate Greensboro Swarm with whom he averaged 19.3 points, five boards and 4.7 assists — albeit on horrid 20 percent shooting from behind the arc.
With Hayes and Shake Milton expected to vie for point guard spots on the tail end of the Nets’ roster, now they will have more competition.