NBA lockout has ex-BA star Brandan Wright unsure of future plan

Brandan Wright isn’t sure what to expect next season, if there is an NBA season.

The former Brentwood Academy star was traded from Golden State to New Jersey in February, and he’s a restricted free agent.

The NBA locked out its players on July 1 when the league’s collective bargaining agreement expired, putting the season in jeopardy.

“There’s a chance I might not go back (to New Jersey), but we don’t know — especially with all the labor stuff,” Wright said. “Right now it’s looking like I’ll be back there. But you never know. It’s a business. You don’t know what’s going to happen.”

The NBA is in its first lockout since 1998-99, when the regular season was reduced to 50 games.

“We’re very concerned,” Wright said. “We want to play basketball, obviously, but we’ve got to take care of business with that and get it all right and come to some type of agreement.”

The 6-foot-10 forward played his first 2½ seasons with Golden State after being taken in the 2007 draft as a freshman out of North Carolina.

“It was an adjustment period, for sure,” Wright said of the transition to the Nets. “I really didn’t get comfortable with them (played in 16 games) until like, the last five games coming over in the trade and it was a young team.”

“(The trade) was totally expected,” said Wright, who was dealt with Dan Gadzuric for Troy Murphy and a second-round pick in 2012. “It had been talked about. It was one of those things where it was just time for a fresh start and Golden State gave me another opportunity by making that trade.”