{"id":418504,"date":"2025-11-18T11:58:18","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T11:58:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/418504\/"},"modified":"2025-11-18T11:58:18","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T11:58:18","slug":"2026-nba-drafts-big-3-make-nets-tanking-stakes-clear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/418504\/","title":{"rendered":"2026 NBA Draft&#8217;s Big 3 make Nets&#8217; tanking stakes clear"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Nets are so invested in rebuilding that their owner <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/10\/21\/sports\/nets-tank-attempt-being-successful-isnt-as-simple-as-it-sounds\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">admitted they\u2019re prioritizing a good draft pick<\/a> and their fans are mad they\u2019re still not tanking hard enough.<\/p>\n<p>At 2-11.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s just how much focus is being put on the May lottery, and the (possible) franchise-changing talents it could give the Nets a chance to draft.<\/p>\n<p>Right now, the Nets have the fourth-best odds in the lottery standings for a loaded draft with three perceived franchise-changers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Nets are so invested in rebuilding that their owner admitted they\u2019re prioritizing a good draft pick and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":418505,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3767],"tags":[7,670,247,3803,6,12,249,671,3823,66,196],"class_list":{"0":"post-418504","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brooklyn-nets","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-brooklyn","10":"tag-brooklyn-nets","11":"tag-brooklynnets","12":"tag-nba","13":"tag-nba-draft","14":"tag-nba-draft-lottery","15":"tag-nets","16":"tag-post-sports-newsletters","17":"tag-sports","18":"tag-sports-plus"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/115570586868862781","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=418504"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418504\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/418505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=418504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=418504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=418504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}