How to pronounce "braids"?

I am not very clear about the pronunciation of "ds" in "braids". Short sound "[d]" is pronounced with "[z]", and so together "ds" sounds like [dz]?


Context:
e basic idea is that space is not continuous, as we usually think, but is instead broken up into tiny chunks 10-35 metres across. These are then connected by links to make the space we experience. When these links are tangled up into braids and knots, they produce elementary particles.