{"id":707916,"date":"2026-04-11T04:45:19","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T04:45:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/707916\/"},"modified":"2026-04-11T04:45:19","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T04:45:19","slug":"nets-need-to-make-their-own-luck-and-earn-a-top-3-nba-draft-pick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/707916\/","title":{"rendered":"Nets need to make their own luck and earn a top 3 NBA draft pick"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>All season long, the Nets\u2019 mission has been securing a top seed in the lottery.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Mission (all but) accomplished.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>After falling Thursday against Indiana and <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/04\/10\/sports\/nets-help-their-lottery-chances-with-loss-on-road-to-bucks\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Friday in Milwaukee<\/a> \u2014 both against tanking teams similarly incentivized to lose \u2014 Brooklyn is one step from clinching a coveted Top 3 spot in the lottery.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Unless they stumble at the finish, and fumble a golden opportunity.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"All season long, the Nets\u2019 mission has been securing a top seed in the lottery.\u00a0 Mission (all but)&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":707917,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3767],"tags":[7,670,247,3803,6,249,671,66,198,196],"class_list":{"0":"post-707916","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-lottery","14":"tag-nets","15":"tag-sports","16":"tag-sports-columnists","17":"tag-sports-plus"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116384256707395550","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/707916","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=707916"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/707916\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/707917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=707916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=707916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=707916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}