Exclusive | Dennis Schroder knows his best basketball could potentially land him off Nets

NEW ORLEANS — Dennis Schroder is playing the best basketball of his life.Good enough that he might end up playing his way right off the Nets.Despite the Nets being committed to a rebuild, they’ve ridden their veterans to a better-than-expected start — with Schroder the leader among them.

But his career year isn’t just worrying fans actually looking forward to the Nets tanking.It’s drawing interest from teams around the league for a potential trade.“I’ve been in the league 12 years, and people have talked about my name in trade talks for 12 years.

[And] I’ve been traded twice,” Schroder told The Post before his Nets played at the Pelicans on Monday night.“… So [gossip] is going to happen.

They use it as an event where they can promote who is on the block.I don’t really care.“But I’ve bought into this system right now because they pay my checks, and I’m doing my job every single day, and I’m always professional about it, always going to make the most out of it.

Get 1 percent better every single day.And whatever happens, happens.

I understand it’s a business, but no worries here.”Schroder has actually been traded four times, the first instance, from Atlanta to Oklahoma City, he actually wanted.And at 31 and on a team-friendly $13 million expiring deal, he’s going to elicit interest from contenders around the league.But Schroder’s point is well-taken.

He has the most NBA experience on the roster, and over that time he’s learned to control what he can.And even though Schroder couldn’t control the Nets embarking on a rebuild, he can control how he handles it.But don’t think for a second he’s about tanking.“For me, rebuilding, I’ve seen a stat the last 15 years whoever did the rebuilding stuff and wanted to lose, nobody got anything out of it,” Schroder said.

“At the end of the day, we can rebuild having young guys, second, first, third-year guys.But we still want to win in the process, going through it.

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